A Critique of Pure Tolerance
by Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Herbert Marcuse · first published 1965
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…power of the people as individuals rather than religious, ethnic or social interest groups), I recommend in particular the first and third essays (the third by Marcuse, the first by Richard Wolff) from A Critique of Pure Tolerance[5] [0] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/cultu... [1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.ht... [2] I must first note that "commodity fetishism" is absolutely…
on “Neoliberalism and the commodification of opinions” ↗…a kind of peaceful existence, which, the author argues, is inadequate for democracy but makes us feel good. The essay is "Beyond Tolerance" by Robert Wolff, and it's part of a three essay book called Critique of Pure Tolerance, which as the name may not suggest to the reader is written from a strongly left-wing point of view (it even contains an essay by Frankfurt School critical theorist Herbert Marcuse!). You can read the…
on “Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality” ↗>Foucault's Pendulum What's this about? >Critique of Pure Reason What did you find particular challenging to your worldview? As a side note, you may be interested in Critique of Pure Tolerance which has an essay by Robert Wolff and Marcuse. Have you seen The Dialectic of Enlightenment?
on “Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?” ↗That's almost a word-for-word restatement of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" essay in A Critique of Pure Tolerance, which is essentially stating that Tolerance is only a great good so long as it means tolerance for Marxist ideas and that no leftwingers should ever be tolerant towards rightwing views.
on “Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai” ↗…"believe in science" and conservatives are close minded. There is nothing Liberal about mainstream American culture, as it is the product of Frankfurt School ideology (Please read Herbert Marcuse essay on A critique of Pure Tolerance)and what you call "Conservatism" is actually classical liberalism. So dear Alice, welcome Through the Looking-Glass aka America in 2022!
…favoring an unjust status quo": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centri... "Can the Center Hold Any Meaning?": https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/political-centr... "A Critique of Pure Tolerance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Critique_of_Pure_Tolerance
on “Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization” ↗