Herbert Marcuse - An Essay on Liberation (1969)

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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

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Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

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Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

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