they are attacking him on very different grounds. 
Many of us who look at the criticism now, argue 
that many of his critics were highly motivated and 
had agendas of their own. In particular during the 
1960s, there were some very important political 
agendas. While I think that McLuhan offered 
something that those of a right wing or a left wing 
persuasion should listen to, I think what the left in 
particular found lacking in McLuhan is a serious 
question that anybody reading McLuhan has to 
take a look at: the question of power. McLuhan is 
talking about power in a very different way. He’s 
talking about creative power, he’s talking about 
the power that we give away in effect when we