Thread by @EveKeneinan

Fixed Marcuse with 2 changes.

1 Gave ‘the Establishment’ its better name ‘the Cathedral’
2 Corrected Marcuse’s basic error of thinking the few hands in which wealth, power, and technology are concentrated are also (somehow) “the conservative majority.” Hogwash.
@ConceptualJames

@ConceptualJames At least this excerpt now says something that is true.

@ConceptualJames Now we reach the INDEFENSIBLE, the HEGELIAN notion that EVIL is magically transmuted into GOOD (even though it is admittedly EVIL) — if it serves “the right side of history.”

He defends the Guillotine and the Nazis' 12 million being worse than the Communists' 100+ millions.

@ConceptualJames And here is the πρῶτον ψεῦδος of Marcuse, the Ground Error from the start: the view “Leftward” is “good” because “liberating”—when in fact Leftward is decay, decline, decadence. It is the direction Cthulhu swims because of cultural entropy. It is DEATHWARD.

@ConceptualJames Once one understands THIS, that Cthulhu always swims left, no matter how slowly, one understands Marcuse as EXACTLY BACKWARDS.

The Right should be tolerated but not the Left, which is *always* traitorous, subversive, seditious, and blasphemous.

@ConceptualJames Once one has grasped that Cthulhu always swims left, one also recognizes that LIBERALISM, which would be a universal tolerance, only *delays* the leftward decline.

That is its basic problem.

It is not, and cannot be stable.

Liberalism is *always* being undermined by drift.

@ConceptualJames So I would say the truth is—and this is a rather bitter red pill, but not a black one—that the leftward swim of Cthulhu MUST BE ACTIVELY OPPOSED IN ALL CASES.

Marcuse mistakenly identifies Nazism as REACTIONARY instead of REVOLUTIONARY, which it was—just not his preferred brand.