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Progressive Labor Party

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  1. Who's Afraid of Herbert Marcuse?
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Identity and aliases

Progressive Labor Party (PLP), American Maoist organization and organized faction active within SDS during the late 1960s. Aliases or naming cautions: PL; PLP; Progressive Labor.

Dated role and investigative relevance

Documented Marcuse criticism in 1968. PLP provides contrary evidence against treating the New Left as unified behind Marcuse.

Geography

No location more precise than the cited record is asserted here.

Assessment and confidence

High for bibliographic identification; original issues still needed. The criticism shows conflict and contested reception.

What this record does not establish

It does not establish that every PLP member held the same view or settle the truth of the accusations.

Role in this research

Published contemporaneous attacks on Marcuse, material contrary evidence against a unified or controlling relationship.

Evidence basis

Research Memo: Marcuse's American Transition and New Left Bridge.

Specific evidence

Who's Afraid of Herbert Marcuse? identifies 'Marcuse: Cop-out or Cop?' and Israel and Russell's 'Herbert Marcuse and His Philosophy of Copout,' Progressive Labor 6, no. 5, October 1968, p. 61.

  • Who's Afraid of Herbert Marcuse?
Follow-up gaps

Acquire and inspect both original 1968 articles, authorship, circulation, and response.

Research provenance

Research Memo: Marcuse's American Transition and New Left Bridge.