The possibilities of thinking and action transformers in the society of the spetacle

Abstract

There is a great affinity between the concepts of Guy Debord’s society of the spectacle and Herbert Marcuse’s unidimensional society, concerning the theoretical basis and the historical perspective. The intensification of the instrumental rationality over the modern societies shows the commodity form advance on almost all social relationships. The consumption society enlargement is supposedly shown as the most advanced civilization degree. The ideological process of public control endeavors to obliterate the thinking and action critical forms or the historical transformation subject emergence, as thought by Karl Marx. Nevertheless, this last stage of the capitalism, the neo-liberalism, may contain the seeds to a social transformation and historical dialectic. Micheal Löwy’s refl ections on the eco-socialism suggest that the absolute control of the commodity form may lead to a stage of ethical and material or even natural resources depletion