The Long
Insurgency

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Strategic limits on revolutionary violence

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  1. The New Left and the 1960s Herbert Marcuse; edited by Douglas Kellner.
  2. Repressive Tolerance Herbert Marcuse. 1965.
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Definition in this research

Marcuse's context-specific distinction between revolutionary transformation and tactics he judged isolated, premature, terroristic, or unable to mobilize a social base.

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