 Does Marcuse continue to employ Heideggerian ideas in a new language? Is Marcuse’s critique of one-dimensionality nothing more than a Heideggerian critique of inauthenticity? Both terms refer to “a mass society of blind conformity” (Wolin 2001: 168). Wolin also raises the question of parallels between Heidegger’s ontological elitism and Marcuse’s notion of an “educational dictatorship” (Wolin 2001: 172). The issue of an educational dictatorship occurs in Eros and Civilization (1955) as well as in “Repressive Tolerance” (1965) and reflects Marcuse’s pessimism about the development of radical consciousness in the working class. The problem of some form of intellectual elitism is not only found in Heidegger but in Marxism itself. One need only think about Lenin’s notion of the Vanguard. However, whether the source be Heidegger or certain Marxists, the wave toward elitism, in one form or another, remains a problem in Marcuse’s work.  