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The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse

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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
Fatally
Entangled
Domination
Society
Become
Reason

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