Material plenty legitimately silences meaningful political opposition
Evidence
To the degree to which freedom from want, the concrete substance of all freedom, is becoming a real possibility, the liberties which pertain to a state of lower productivity are losing their former content. Independence of thought, autonomy, and the right to political opposition are being deprived of their basic critical function in a society which seems increasingly capable of satisfying the needs of the individuals through the way in which it is organized. Such a society may justly demand acceptance of its principles and institutions, and reduce the opposition to the discussion and promotion of alternative policies within the status quo. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 107
Categorization
- XREF: Directly bridges to the reader’s attention/consumption-economics interest: satisfaction-as-control. — connects to: Deconstruction paradoxically requires political resistance to stay silent and unprogrammatic — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 321; A critique of silencing can itself reproduce the silence it indicts — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 308; Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Deconstruction paradoxically requires political resistance to stay silent and unprogrammatic
#corroborates(0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 321 - Vague ideological slogans can mask rather than resolve real political contradictions
#corroborates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2766 - A critique of silencing can itself reproduce the silence it indicts
#corroborates(0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 308 - A system tolerates and rewards dissent that stays within its boundaries
#corroborates(0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 340