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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 19
Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 3 of 4
In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn. Having set up the framing of the essay in the first part and explaining the condition of the "administered society" in the second, Marcuse now turns to answering the question of what a Repressive Tolerance should look like, including what it must suppress and what it must tolerate, including the sorts of violence and extralegal behaviors it must tolerate. The statement, which we...