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Dossier
Progressive Labor Party (PLP), American Maoist organization and organized faction active within SDS during the late 1960s.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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REL-000599Publicly Criticized By 1968 to 1969; 1969-12-31 (separate date expressions) Account not writtenHerbert Marcuse publicly Criticized By Progressive Labor Party.
reported confidence · high this record is the object
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Herbert Marcuse →
REL-000608Criticism Documented In 1968 to 1969; 1969-12-31 (separate date expressions) Account not writtenProgressive Labor Party criticism Documented In Who's Afraid of Herbert Marcuse?.
reported confidence · high this record is the subject
This connection is recorded. Its account has not been written. Who's Afraid of Herbert Marcuse? →