Prager videos are excellent. And there is nothing wrong with what Dave Ruben says. But there is something missing that makes all the difference in one’s understanding.
Dave Ruben’s video is an accurate observation of the left’s version of tolerance, and is cathartic for the rest of us in a thin way, as it confirms our own observations. But unless you understand why we all see what we see it is of limited use.
I draw your attention to page 71 of Rich Higgins and Stephen Coughlin’s paper on the Strategy and Tactics of the Left. An examination of the various Marxist tacticians and strategists, and the legacy of destruction they created.
While Marcuse was a prolific writer, treatment here will be limited to establish- ing the dialectical nature of Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” in furtherance of explaining its dialectical design.
“Repressive Tolerance” weaponized critical theory for use against America and the West. For Marcuse, the repressive tolerance of America was, and still is, in need of negation by a liberating toler- ance—Die Amerikanische Kultur muss aufgehoben werden.
As with Horkheimer and Lukács, Marcuse’s Marxism was purposefully Hegelian. While still in Germany, Marcuse studied under Martin Heidegger.179 In 1932 he wrote a Ph.D. level thesis, Hegel‘s Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity).180In 1941, while on staff at the Institute for Social Research at Columbia University, he famously wrote Reason and Revolution.181 The full name of the monograph is Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Modern Social Theory.182 In 1965, he wrote “Repressive Tolerance”.183
“Repressive Tolerance” lays out the operational design of Marxist critical theory applied to America. Marcuse did this through the arbitrary division of tolerance into two forms; liberating and repressive, for the purpose of subjecting toler- ance to a dialectical process of negation. Under Marcuse’s regime, (universal) tolerance becomes intolerance to non-conforming (particular) views.
Leftists have, as they consistently do in their war against reason, redefined important terms accepted by us all as having specific meanings, in order to weaponize them to the purpose of the destruction of Western culture, laws and civilization. Tolerance, to leftists, and especially those steeped in leftist thought like ANTIFA, means Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance, which as stated above, is a critical theory tactical weapon to crush all who stand in the way of ascendent Marxist thought as the dominant and only form of thought.
UPDATE:
Thank you PC for sending in this video explanation of repressive tolerance.
(This video above fails to understand the Hegelian type of thinking which is the core of Marxism. His explanation is good in terms of the practical understanding of its result, but to really understand repressive tolerance you have to understand the Hegelian-Marxist strategy of dialectic negation of our culture(s) )
Excellent review of Repressive Tolerance.
https://youtu.be/xgmSiQ_MtKQ
[In the 1970’s, Marcuse was already taking about re-distribution of wealth to heal the environment.]
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Marcuse, Liberation, and Radical Ecology by Douglas Kellner
There was, for Marcuse, a contradiction between capitalist productivity and nature, for in its quest for higher profits and the domination of nature, capitalism inevitably destroyed nature. Capitalist production manifested an unleashing of aggressive and destructive energies which destroyed life and polluted nature.
Facts: The positive aspects, the negative aspects, and then the plan for the way forward: synthesis.
The use of factual-distortions and fears; will create a climate-change within any person to a faulty conclusion. To then attack those that they believe are their imagined enemy. In this way, they will act as an army of slaves.
“Within Hegelianism, the word dialectic has the specialised meaning of a contradiction between ideas that serves as the determining factor in their relationship. Dialectic comprises three stages of development: first, a thesis or statement of an idea, which gives rise to a second step, a reaction or antithesis that contradicts or negates the thesis, and third, the synthesis, a statement through which the differences between the two points are resolved.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
The natural way we rationalize, just became weaponized.
“Dialectical materialism, a theory or set of theories produced mainly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted the Hegelian dialectic into arguments regarding traditional materialism.”
So 2+2=5. Just replace a 2 with a 3 and still called it a 2.
For example,
“repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near,’ could mean “submit to Allah, because Judgement Day is upon us”. Whereas, it could also mean “repent, your Pride is blinding you. Forgive, and then god will forgive you and you are set free.”.
Feed the sick, or heal the sick. A new identity of faith, or the removal the thorns.
So this is how thesis, antithesis and ‘plan to kill the unbelievers’ is born.
It’s a sleight of hand. My Religion tells me so, or my conscience tells me so.
Something so simple, turned into something so complicated that we all need their scholars and intellectuals to understand it for us. And we never will. It just becomes memorizing words. Mao’s little Red Book. The Koran. Resentment Studies. My Struggle.
islam, Marxism and LGBTQ all have their fear-based, messed-up Hegelian dialectic pushed into them. Seeing without seeing.
“repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near’.
Aka, get your head out of your mind.
So, “America is bad.” Should be sure, some things are bad.
But the intimidators say, “Everything is bad. The Great Satan. These Capitalist Pigs. Their Cis-Gender Patriarchy.”
So their antithesis to Americia is “Everything is wrong with it.” If Americans say white, they say black. If they say black, the reaction is white.
With the promise, from the rubble, will rise up a peace the world has never seen. Communism. Islam. Opium Addicts.
Oh, we have.
Sick people abusing and recruiting more sick people until a sixteen year old is raging with a gun in your face.
“Make America Great Again” has them apoplectic.