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The History of Critical Race Theory: Part 1 The father of the new left

  
By:  Vic Eldred  •  3 years ago  •  3 comments


The History of Critical Race Theory: Part 1 The father of the new left
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently...

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"Herbert Marcuse  ( / m ɑːr ˈ k z ə / ; German:  [maʁˈkuːzə] ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American  philosopher sociologist , and  political theorist , associated with the  Frankfurt School  of  critical theory . Born in  Berlin , Marcuse studied at the  Humboldt University of Berlin  and then at  Freiburg , where he received his PhD. [5]  He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based  Institute for Social Research  – what later became known as the  Frankfurt School . He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). [6] [7] [8]  In his written works, he criticized  capitalism , modern technology,  Soviet Communism  and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of  social control . [9]

Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the  Office of Strategic Services  (predecessor of the  Central Intelligence Agency ) where he criticized the  ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union  in the book  Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis  (1958). In the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the  New Left  and the student movements of  West Germany , France, and the United States; some consider him "the Father of the New Left". [10]

His best known works are  Eros and Civilization  (1955) and  One-Dimensional Man  (1964). His  Marxist  scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

This is the man who started what is known as "critical theory." As you can see it began long ago. Most notable of the many books he wrote was   "An essay on Liberation" (1969), in which he celebrated various liberation. The stuff that young leftist radicals fall in love with. One of the criticisms of his work was that he openly advocated violence to attain the desred ends. Sound familiar?

In 1972 he wrote "Counterrevolution and Revolt"
which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right. 

"In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth."

https://www.amazon.com/Counterrevolution-Revolt-Herbert-Marcuse-ebook/dp/B009U9S71G


I await and pray for the great Counterrevolution.


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