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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

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The Importance of Critical Theory in Tolerance

"Tolerance of free speech is a way of improvement, the progress of progress and liberation," he says. "It's because there is an objective truth that can be discovered." The subject whose improvement depends upon a progressive historical practice is 'each man as man' He claims liberalist tolerance was at least in theory based on the proposition that men were potential individuals who could learn to hear and see and feel by themselves - against established authority and opinion.

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