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| − | '''Herbert Marcuse''' (1898-1979), a member of the [[Frankfurt School]], was a major figure in the [[New Left]] movement of the 1960s. He was also a major figure in the development of [[Cultural Marxism]], more commonly known as [[political correctness]]. Marcuse invented the concept of | + | '''Herbert Marcuse''' (1898-1979), a member of the [[Frankfurt School]], was a major figure in the [[New Left]] movement of the 1960s. He was also a major figure in the development of [[Cultural Marxism]], more commonly known as [[political correctness]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “[[partisan tolerance]],” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. Partisan tolerance has evolved into [[political correctness]] and [][censorship]]. |
Many radical activists were influenced by Marcuse, such as Norman O. Brown,<ref>{{cite book |author=Dufresne, Todd |title=Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |year=2000 |page=112 |isbn=978-0-8047-3885-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> [[Angela Davis]],<ref name="Ebony-July1971">{{cite news | Many radical activists were influenced by Marcuse, such as Norman O. Brown,<ref>{{cite book |author=Dufresne, Todd |title=Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |year=2000 |page=112 |isbn=978-0-8047-3885-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> [[Angela Davis]],<ref name="Ebony-July1971">{{cite news | ||
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Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), a member of the Frankfurt School, was a major figure in the New Left movement of the 1960s. He was also a major figure in the development of Cultural Marxism, more commonly known as political correctness. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, tolerance for leftist ideas and intolerance of all others. Partisan tolerance has evolved into political correctness and [][censorship]].
Many radical activists were influenced by Marcuse, such as Norman O. Brown,[1] Angela Davis,[2] Charles J. Moore, Abbie Hoffman, Rudi Dutschke, and Robert M. Young. Marcuse later expressed his radical ideas through three pieces of writing. He wrote An Essay on Liberation in 1969, in which he celebrated so-called "national liberation movements" such as that of the Viet Cong, which inspired many radicals. In 1972 he wrote Counterrevolution and Revolt, which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right. He published his final work The Aesthetic Dimension in 1979 on the role of art in the process of what he termed "emancipation" from "bourgeois" society.
Marcuse realized that America is a nation uniquely unburdened by a class structure, at least in the way most European nations are defined along incredibly strict stratifications of class distinction, down to how one’s class can be identified almost immediately just by one’s accent.
In America, the boundless upward mobility afforded by a republic based on the rights of the individual as opposed to the privileges of a special class, are how a prairie lawyer like Abraham Lincoln could become president, or how Barack Obama, the biracial son of a single mother, could do exactly the same thing. Fomenting a class war was clearly not going to work in a country where even the idea of class distinctions was frowned upon by the majority. Social strife was to be exacerbated so that established societal structures could be dismantled. Marcuse found another dividing line that could be exploited to exacerbate social strife and dismantle societal structures—“victim groups.”[3]
He is infamous for promoting the false idea that the fascists and Nazis were sexual repressives and adhered to a strict moral code (when in reality, the Nazis actually were bohemians and sexual perverts).
Marcuse was denounced by Pope Paul VI for "theory that opens the way to license cloaked as liberty, and the aberration of instinct called liberation."[4]
References
- ↑ Dufresne, Todd (2000). Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3885-9.
- ↑ Davis, Angela. "Rhetoric Vs. Reality: Angela Davis tells why black people should not be deceived by words", Johnson Publishing Company, July 1971, pp. 115–120.
- ↑ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/28/exclusive-excerpt-sebastian-gorkas-the-war-for-americas-soul-the-plotters-and-their-plan-to-destroy-america/
- ↑ George Katsiaficas (1996, Original lecture on 1 Nov 1991 at M.I.T.). Marcuse as an Activist: Reminiscences of His Theory and Practice. New Political Science.