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taharrush jamai . It involves surrounding and sexually assaulting non-Muslim women and is considered a healthy form of bonding ritual amongst Muslim men, with fathers and sons even participating together, to reinforce familial relations

Empirical justification counts for nothing; for the Cultural Marxist, furthering of the ideology is all that matters. In common with Classical Marxists, Cultural Marxists can only define themselves in terms of what they are against, rather than what they are for

The oppressive group is assigned at least one negative Pathology , which usually takes the form of an ‘ism’ or a ‘phobia.’ This supposed pathological state is used to imply that the oppressive nature of the group is the result of some form of subconscious sickness, which provides grounds for dismissing any denial of their supposed oppressiveness as a sign of mental delusion

for Marcuse, only revolutionary minorities held the ‘truth,’ and the majority had to be ‘liberated’ from their erroneous ways by being re-educated in the truth by the minorities. He claimed that these revolutionary minorities had every right to suppress alternative viewpoints

Marcuse believed that, under these circumstances, the traditional concept of tolerance served the cause of domination, and that an entirely new and revolutionary form of tolerance would be required; the ‘tolerance’ of the political Left.
This new ‘liberating tolerance’ would incorporate subversion and revolutionary violence, along with a rabid intolerance of the political right, traditionalism, conservatism,

Marcuse sought to target what he saw as the cultural forms of repression, and the role played by technology in the increased production of consumer goods, to maintain the stability of capitalism. Like Adorno, he despised popular culture, believing that the prosperity of the immediate post-World War II era was keeping the masses in a state of intellectual and spiritual bondage

Adorno’s F scale, the phobic individuals are seen as partially, if not completely, at the fascist end of the scale. The legacy of this is still with us today; it is why politically correct people are so quick to label their opponents as ‘fascists’ and also accounts for their tendency to pathologize the views of anyone who disagrees with them

Adorno sought to greatly expand on Fromm’s idea of pathologizing cultural norms and values; under his direction, any overt allusions to Marxism would be phased out, in favour of an increasing emphasis on the utilization of psychoanalysis to effect social change

The principles of Lukács sex education programme, namely the abandonment of traditional family values, encouraging women to reject traditional sexual mores, and promoting the idea that monogamy was an outdated concept, would become the basis for the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s.

Unlike Marx, Horkheimer acknowledged that the economic success, and the corresponding social mobility facilitated by capitalism, meant that revolution was unlikely to come from the working class. He, therefore, made it his mission to find what he called a ‘surrogate’ for the working class. Ultimately, this surrogate would not be discovered until the 1960s