The Long
Insurgency

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Conditional right of resistance

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  1. Repressive Tolerance Herbert Marcuse. 1965.
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Marcuse's argument that oppressed minorities may use extralegal resistance when legal remedies are inadequate, including counterviolence against an entrenched hierarchy.

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Research Memo: Marcuse's American Transition and New Left Bridge