Your Rights Repressive Tolerance

In 64 he publishes this book One Dimensional Man. He has this idea that the consumer society kind of by the same process I just talked about flatten society into a one dimensional process. And so you're not doing a critical theory of society anymore. You're not becoming a discontented, uh, proletariat revolutionary. The left is to be given tolerance, even when they're violent, because violence is justified against a repressive regime that won't allow it any other way. So we have to rethink tolerance to be tolerant of the left and utterly intolerant of the right as understood this way.

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