Abstract
Abstract There is a beautiful passage in Marcuse's book on Soviet Marxism along the lines of the above rationalization, no matter how cynical and bitter. In the chapter dedicated to the externalization of values in Soviet ethics he writes: “Soviet ethics…contains a ‘safety valve’: the image of the future seems to perform a function corresponding to that of the transcendental elements in Western ethics — in this image we seem to have a real Soviet substitute for religion. However, there is an essential difference from which Soviet ethics derives much of its appeal. The transcendental goal in Soviet ethics is a historical one, and the road to its attainment a historical process — the result of a concrete social and political development.
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