Repressives Tolerance

What's good world, we back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit, and on this episode, I'm delving in to the article 'Repressive Tolerance' by Herbert Marcuse.

In my humble opinion, this is a seminal text in critical theory, one that often gets over looked, and given its relevance to today's political climate, I felt it appropriate to delves into.

Well, the first four pages cuz this is a dense read and I ended this episode near the two hour mark! Suffice to say, I'm very much looking forward to breaking it down in future episodes.

For now, I discuss the rise of Nazi and Hitler apologists, how Marx predicted this wave of anti-Semitism as being inextricably tied to capitalism and dire material conditions, and how Marcuse can help us understand that the only way to really combat it is to 'meet the people where they are at', to put it kindly.

This is a controversial take from a controversial text, so it should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the more (admittedly) controversial episodes I've made. But as I mention, life is not easy pretending otherwise by stating we can't have such difficult conversations is exactly what Marcuse means by repressive tolerance.

Stay woke fam...