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Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

New Discourses

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The Ends Justify the Means

The end belongs to a world different from in contrary to the established universe of discourse and behavior. No matter how good the end it does not justify the illegal means within the system is what he means. He's saying that if you have the right transformational ends then you can't judge the means from the existing system because it can only be judged by what they accomplish. If the radical opposition develops its own language it protests spontaneously subconsciously against one of the most effective secret weapons of domination and defamation, says David Frum.

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