Marcuse and Marx: robbing creativity?
I agree. Both Marx and Marcuse, as far as I understand, certainly argue about losing creativity and valuable human criteria within the social system designed by power figures. Through repetitive works for surviving, workers (those who do not have controls) tend to lose their identity and creativity; according to Marx, it could be explained as commodification/objectification of workers and according to Marcuse, moving from two-dimensional vision to one-dimensional. Capitalism, which those who have power control over those who don't in terms of material and mental status, creates and maintains the hegemonic position of a certain group i.e. the capitalist, at the same time, the other population without power/capital "who are preconditioned to accept of the conditions offered to them" (Marcuse 330) naturally adapt to the capitalist society, take their position as 'workers', get used to being exploited and remain in one-dimensional states while losing abilities to think in two-dimensional ways.