According to Andrew Breitbart, unable to find a disgruntled proletariat, Marcuse found another dividing line that could be exploited to exacerbate social strife and dismantle societal structures—namely “victim groups,” the bedrock of [[identity politics]]. His primary thesis was that revolutionaries such as university students, ghetto blacks, the alienated, the asocial, and the [[third world]] could take the place of the [[proletariat]]. | According to Andrew Breitbart, unable to find a disgruntled proletariat, Marcuse found another dividing line that could be exploited to exacerbate social strife and dismantle societal structures—namely “victim groups,” the bedrock of [[identity politics]]. His primary thesis was that revolutionaries such as university students, ghetto blacks, the alienated, the asocial, and the [[third world]] could take the place of the [[proletariat]]. |