Although we can never fully attain utopia, argued Marcuse, we must strive to attain the utopias within our grasp Marcuse was by the 1960s, an outspoken advocate for revolution, for many achievable utopias, and for liberation of consciousness and of the body that would be both prologue and the result of this revolution. He would follow his pessimistic One-Dimensional Man with such works as his An Essay Liberation Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972). Although he would never repudiate his own pessimistic views in One-Dimensional Man, he also never gave up the idea that concluded this book: "it is only for the sake of those with- out hope that hope is given to us 25 Marcuse borrowed these words from his friend Walter Benjamin, a Frankfurt School colleague who committed suicide during his own attempt to flee Nazi persecution