ABSTRACT
Marcuse found that the environmentalist movement’s criticisms of extractive and polluting economic policies often involve system-negations and epitomize the Great Refusal. The “global revolt of youth” against war, women’s oppression, racial animosity, and the devastation of the earth represented a key challenge to advanced industrial capitalism. Marcuse modelled a critical perspective on education that inspired the critical insights of radical educational theorists like Henry Giroux, Douglas Kellner, and Peter McLaren. Their work develops the revolutionary path by which we, an international political force of “the 99 percent,” can collectively retake and repossess a commonworld characterized by racial equality, women’s equality, the liberation of labor, the restoration of nature, leisure, abundance, and peace.
