ABSTRACT
The growing significance are sometimes known as Marx's more humanistic writings, the manuscripts in particular, was of course a wider trend in Western Marxism. Gorz has been called 'the French Marcuse', and has been said to be 'taking up where Marcuse left off'. Like Marx, Gorz saw the industrial worker as existentially mutilated their true human identity as a freely creative being denied. Gorz suggested that the repetition, boredom, and regimented hierarchical control associated with labor since the mechanization of production, were far from inevitable; repetitive work, regimentation at the places of work, and authoritarian division of labor are no longer technical necessities. Gorz was of course following Marcuse also, and includes the latter's assertion from One Dimensional Man that 'economic freedom would mean freedom from the economy'. Although Gorz and Negri attempt to identify the ways in which Marx's theory must be adapted to present conditions, they face a by now familiar theoretical and practical problem.
