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Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

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The Brute Reality of the Sanctioned Aggression

"The traditional distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence becomes questionable," he writes. "Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of a university, the draft board or the supermarket?" He argues that law and order can only be legitimately demanded if it adheres to its own standards and values.

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