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I believe in classical liberalism where freedom is inalienable and supercedes the state. This is opposed to communism where they believe that rights come from the state and are granted as privileges. What I'm doing is connecting what Marcuse teaches together with what's happening today. All the activity that's working to promote sustainability are happening to the detriment of economic progress. Notice that the enviromentalists never support nuclear power because plentiful power supports strong economic progress. The ideal is to slow down the economy into a circular economy. The consequence is to make everything more expensive which leads to more people becoming more dissatisfied with the idea of capitalism. The richest and most powerful people of the planet are conforming into Marcuse's world whether they know it or not. The language I hear from them matches the sentiment that Marcuse teaches about society, they might know and support Marcuse or they might not know this but this is what's happening.
I hate all of this. I want a life of freedom where people can choose to live as cogs in the economic machine. Within today's freedom, people can also choose to live as subsistence farmers and gatherers all they want, there's no need to force a free society to live minimal subsistence lives. The communists don't like that there are inequalities that happen when there is freedom. What they want is conformity for all, except for the communist leaders who happen to have the superior intellect and therefore they should have control of society and the resources.