Repressive Tolerance
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Repressive Tolerance is a 1965 essay by Herbert Marcuse.[1] In the essay, Marcuse, a Marxist and social theorist, argues that "pure tolerance" favors the political right and "the tyranny of the majority".
Critics of the essay argues that his argument is anti-democratic and that he opposes freedom of expression.
However, he affirms at the last of the essay that "the alternative to the established semi-democratic proseccus is not a dictatorship or elite, no matter how intellectual and intelligent, but the struggle for a real democracy." At this point, his idea is akin to the rule of law.
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- ^ Herbert Marcuse (1965). "Repressive Tolerance". http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm.
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