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Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

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The Uncivil Disobedience of the Students of Paris

He says direct action and uncivil disobedience become for the rebels integral parts of the transformation of the indirect democracy of corporate capitalism into a direct democracy. The alternative is not democratic evolution versus radical action but rationalization of the status quo versus change, he says. "The struggle for changes beyond the system becomes by virtue of its own dynamic undemocratic in the terms of the system"

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