Now there’s a claim worth discussing (finally). The cognitively challenged would probably agree, at least in part, to that claim. Because they haven’t done their research and don’t know that crits have their own dictionary.

This sociology went beyond the critical theory of society concived by Marx in order to reflect reality more adequately. One point is very important. For Marx had the ideal of a society of free human beings. He believed that this capitalist society would necessarily have to be overcome by the solidarity spelled by the increasing immiseration of the working class. This idea is wrong. This society in which we live does not immiserate the workers but helps them to build a better life. And apart from that. Marx did not see that freedom and justice are dialectical concepts. The more freedom, the less justice and the more justice, the less freedom. The critical theory which I concieved later is based on the idea that one cannot determine, what is good, what a good, a free society would look like from within the society which we live in. We lack the means. But in our work we can bring up the negative aspects of this society, which we want to change.”

Mad Max, mentioned above.

By “justice”, he means “social justice”. As defined by crits.

I already posted it Here and in other places.

And of course we can follow the next half step - Herbert’s Repressive Tolerance (cancel culture) and Essay On Liberation; the world we are living in today.

It all comes together quite nicely - as I’m sure we can all agree.

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