The Sixties Catalogue

51 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “We Shall Be Free To Think About What We Are Going To Do” 49. MARCUSE, Herbert. AnEssay onLiberation. Boston, 1969. Slim octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $2250. Click for more info First edition of this philosophical work on reinvigorating Leftist movements and the necessary conditions for lasting change, inscribed: “For Dick and Julie, Herbert.” An Essay on Liberation “is an attempt to critically delineate the conditions necessary for the emergence of what [Marcuse] refers to as a ‘non- repressive’ society” (Yoels, Labor History ). Book very nearly fine, unfaded dust jacket extremely good with scattered staining and a bit of wear mainly to extremities. A desirable inscribed copy. “Socialist solidarity is autonomy: self- determination begins at home—and that is with every I, and the We whom the I chooses.”