GET RAD. | Within a repressive society, even progressive...

"Within a repressive society, even progressive movements threaten to turn into their opposite to the degree to which they accept the rules of the game. To take a most controversial case: the exercise of political rights (such as voting, letter-writing to the press, to Senators, etc., protest-demonstrations with a priori renunciation of counterviolence) in a society of total administration serves to strengthen this administration by testifying to the existence of democratic liberties which, in reality, have changed their content and lost their effectiveness."

- Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)

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#politics #philosophy #critical theory #herbert marcuse #frankfurt school

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