"Within a repressive society, even progressive movements threaten to turn into their opposite to the degree to which they accept the rules of the game. To take a most controversial case: the exercise of political rights (such as voting, letter-writing to the press, to Senators, etc., protest-demonstrations with a priori renunciation of counterviolence) in a society of total administration serves to strengthen this administration by testifying to the existence of democratic liberties which, in reality, have changed their content and lost their effectiveness."

Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance (1965)

(Source: abeyances, via ghoulmann)


Posted: Tuesday February 21st, 2012 at 4:26pm
Originally posted by abeyances.
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