04-25-2024, 05:36 PM
It's nuts to me how these dudes who have probably never even heard of Marcuse let alone read him are so perfectly aligned with his "radical" views. 
Marcuse argued that until you could do literally anything you wanted, including changing all of society to your wishes, you were oppressed and violence was an acceptable "resistance" to this oppression. He also argued that anything less than this was oppression, so for example he opposed universal education because it didn't end oppression and thus was perpetuating fascism. As you're probably so very tired of me bringing up, in Repressive Tolerance he argued that even allowing views other than this was oppression and so violence against those who may push any other views was justified. His entire argument was based around the premise that allowing other views, especially ones that argued for their being true despite being oppressive for not being completely permissive, was itself oppressive because it didn't allow anyone to think whatever they wanted. Hence, his conclusion that unending violence by the Left (since the "real" Left would only agree with Marcuse) was justified until all oppression, such as other people having different views, ended permanently.
Somehow a bunch of weird incels globally adopted this as their "progressive" views half a century later. Marcuse even similarly claimed that his anti-oppression position was ordained by "the right side of" History. Since it's just the natural forces of History it's not at all immoral to pave over those who wish to hold us back and keep us oppressed, they fucked around now they can find out. Although I'm just so tired from the constant oppression so it'd be great if you could just do this ONE SIMPLE THING for me and establish Basic Human Decency™.
Marcuse argued that until you could do literally anything you wanted, including changing all of society to your wishes, you were oppressed and violence was an acceptable "resistance" to this oppression. He also argued that anything less than this was oppression, so for example he opposed universal education because it didn't end oppression and thus was perpetuating fascism. As you're probably so very tired of me bringing up, in Repressive Tolerance he argued that even allowing views other than this was oppression and so violence against those who may push any other views was justified. His entire argument was based around the premise that allowing other views, especially ones that argued for their being true despite being oppressive for not being completely permissive, was itself oppressive because it didn't allow anyone to think whatever they wanted. Hence, his conclusion that unending violence by the Left (since the "real" Left would only agree with Marcuse) was justified until all oppression, such as other people having different views, ended permanently.
Somehow a bunch of weird incels globally adopted this as their "progressive" views half a century later. Marcuse even similarly claimed that his anti-oppression position was ordained by "the right side of" History. Since it's just the natural forces of History it's not at all immoral to pave over those who wish to hold us back and keep us oppressed, they fucked around now they can find out. Although I'm just so tired from the constant oppression so it'd be great if you could just do this ONE SIMPLE THING for me and establish Basic Human Decency™.
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