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Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Source: An Essay on Liberation, ch. 1, 1969.
-- Herbert Marcuse, (Jul 19 1898-1979), German-US political philosopher; His Marxist critical philosophy and Freudian psychological analyses of Western society were popular among student leftist radicals during the 1960s.

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