“[P]eople must be capable of deliberating and choosing on the basis of knowledge, that they must have access to authentic information, and that, on this. basis, their evaluation must be the result of autonomous thought.”
“The result is an objective contradiction between the economic and political structure on the one side, and the theory and practice of toleration on the other.. The altered social structure tends to weaken the effectiveness of tolerance toward dissenting and oppositional movements and to strengthen conservative and reactionary forces. Equality of tolerance becomes abstract, spurious. With the actual decline of dissenting forces in the society, the opposition is insulated in small and frequently antagonistic groups who, even where tolerated within the narrow limits set by the hierarchical structure of society, are powerless while they keep within these limits. But the tolerance shown to them is deceptive and promotes co-ordination. And on the firm foundations of a co-ordinated society all but closed against qualitative change, tolerance itself serves to contain such change rather than to promote it.”
excerpts: Herbert Marcuse,”Repressive Tolerance” 1965
#DiscriminatoryTolerance 1968 #HerbertMarcuse #RepressiveTolerance 1965 [Where objective contradiction between economic and political structures on the one side, and theory and practice of #toleration on the other…#tolerance serves to contain such change rather than promote it]
JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa. 