Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

One-Dimensional Man · 1964

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Limits of democracy Elections Democracy

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Political literature

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1964

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Herbert Marcuse

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Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1964, ch. 1.

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