Radical scholars today who point out that there is much of value in the work of Marcuse are correct. But I think Manjur overlooks something important when he argues that there is a line of continuity from Lenin's understanding of a labor aristocracy to Marcuse's concept of one dimensional man. Lenin developed the concept of a labor aristocracy in order to explain and denounce those who had turned their backs on working class revolution. Marcuse developed the concept of one dimensional man to repudiate working class revolution and bring to an end all belief in class struggle as the road to revolution. Today over half of the world's workers subsist on less than two dollars a day.
Millions die of disease and capitalist wars.
Millions are murdered in racist and nationalist genocide. He would not see the eruptions stirring beneath the surface of the volcano. That was C. Wright Mills' error as well. He failed to foresee the upheavals of the 1960s. He, like Marcuse, did not take seriously the increasingly militant anti-racist struggles led by blacks during the late 1950s and early 1960s.