[Peace-discuss] Workers of the World Unite

[David Green]

This is the conclusion of an essay by Herbert Marcuse that will discuss this evening at 7:00 on News from Neptune:

"However, the alternative to the established semi-democratic process is not a dictatorship or elite, no matter how intellectual and intelligent, but the struggle for a real democracy. Part of this struggle is the fight against an ideology of tolerance which, in reality, favors and fortifies the conservation of the status quo of inequality and discrimination. For this struggle, I proposed the practice of discriminating tolerance. To be sure, this practice already presupposes the radical goal which it seeks to achieve. I committed this petitio principii in order to combat the pernicious ideology that tolerance is already institutionalized in this society. The tolerance which is the life element, the token of a free society, will never be the gift of the powers that be; it can, under the prevailing conditions of tyranny by the majority, only be won in the sustained effort of radical minorities, willing to break this tyranny and to work for the emergence of
 a free and sovereign majority - minorities intolerant, militantly intolerant and disobedient to the rules of behavior which tolerate destruction and suppression."

http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm

Here is a cartoon version of the Communist Manifesto, 8 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUl4yfABE4


      
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