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This thinker attacked the liberal middle class's self-praise for promoting the culture it designates as "authentic" in the essay "The Affirmative Character of Culture." This thinker argued that equal presentations of opposing opinions are inherently oppressive, so a "liberating" or "discriminating tolerance" would therefore not tolerate the arguments of the right. This thinker said that the ultimate goal of socialism should be to be to turn the struggle for existence into a "rationality of gratification" which united work and (*) leisure. This author of "Repressive Tolerance" presented work as the social manifestation of the Freudian reality principle and argued society could be liberated by allowing organic libidinal instinct to overcome the Superego's submission to social repression. For 10 points, name this Frankfurt School author of Eros and Civilization.
This thinker attacked the liberal middle class's self-praise for promoting the culture it designates as "authentic" in the essay "The Affirmative Character of Culture.
Herbert Marcuse