Have you ever heard of the Marxist Herbert Marcuse?

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally, at the University of California, San Diego.

He said "Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means."

Undemocratic means.

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

Very prescient.

He is very influential on the radical left. A Marxist from the Frankfurt Institute. Have you ever heard of him or his book "Eros and Civilization" adopted in the '60's?

http://marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/inde...

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Herbert_Ma...