Marcuse held bourgeois democracy’s blocked change justified extra-parliamentary direct action

Evidence

You write, introducing your concept of coldness', that we would even have put up with the murder of the Jews at the time, without moving over into praxis, simply because it was barred to us’. Yes, and today, precisely, it is not barred to us. The difference in the situation is that between fascism and bourgeois democracy. The latter gives us freedoms and rights. But to the extent to which bourgeois democracy (because of its immanent antinomy) blocks qualitative change, even through the parliamentary democratic system itself, the extra-parliamentary opposition becomes the only form of contestation': civil disobedience’, direct action. And the forms of such action, too, no longer follow the traditional schema. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2672

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse asserted a natural right of minorities to extralegal resistance — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2592; Extra-parliamentary civil disobedience is justified when bourgeois democracy blocks qualitative change — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2672; Marcuse argued bourgeois notions of freedom actually sanctioned existing authority — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 424 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Extra-parliamentary civil disobedience is justified when bourgeois democracy blocks qualitative change #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2672
• Marcuse argued bourgeois notions of freedom actually sanctioned existing authority #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 424
• Marcuse rejected gradualist two-phase Marxism for a leap directly into socialism #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1676
• Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1664