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Lecture on Herbert Marcuse
Our Correspondent

Doraha, February 6
An extension lecture on "political ideas of Herbert Marcuse" was organised by the postgraduate department of political science, G.N.N.College, Doraha, today.

Bhupinder Singh Brar, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was the resource person. According to Marcuse, the means of exploitation by capitalist have changed in the modern times, he added. Nowadays, the process of exploiting through maximum work at minimum wages has changed. According to him presently, advanced capitalism is exploiting the consumers by increasing their purchasing power. Along with it, it exploits the consumers by controlling their thoughts also by inciting the consumer through various means to purchase a particular product.

Dr Brar further said the only method to escape from this advanced capitalism suggested by Herbert Marcuse was that the consumer should not only understand the means of exploitation of these advanced capitalists but should also oppose it. In his view, Marcuse gave another surprising fact that as exploitation is being done by advanced capitalism, in the same way the desired objective could not attained even in the socialists countries like Soviet Russia. Because there also like Advanced Capitalism, the thinking of the people was narrowed down by providing basic amenities to them.

According the Marcuse, there is not much difference between Capitalism of 19th and 20th century because in both men is one-dimensional. To be multi-dimensional man should broaden his outlook i.e. to accept as it is whatever is happening to him, he should adopt those things only after analyzing them keeping in mind there weaknesses. He also emphasized on the need of radical thinking, which is possible only by the students as they are revolutionary intellectuals.

Dr Brar concluded the lecture by saying that according to Marcuse in order to lead to a successful life man should create balance among freedom, reason and joy.

Dr Narinder Singh Sidhu, principal and retired professor from Panjab University, Chandigarh, especially attended the extension lecture. Gursharan Kaur, head of the department, Dr Kuldeep Singh, Upasana Kaushal, Hardeep Singh, Priya Sharma and Gursharanjit Singh were those present on the occasion