Pseudo-liberation

In many developed societies the sexual liberation movement has become a pseudo-liberation which has exchanged old taboos, morals and disciplinary patterns for openly exposed and commercialised sex, a no less repressive situation than before.

Pop art's subsequent celebration of the commodity world seemed like no more than pseudo-liberation to Marcuse.

Its chief effect, perhaps, is to remind us that we live in an age not of liberation but of pseudo-liberation.