Western Leaders Unite in Campaign to Silence Conservative Voices Online
9th November 2025
In 1965, the guru of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, penned an essay that neatly brought together both strands of the unitary threat faced today by conservatives defending Western civilization: the threat of online censorship and the threat of street violence. Six decades later, it has come back with renewed force.
Titled “Repressive Tolerance,” the essay’s dictates on the need to repress conservative views are followed almost word for word by 21st-century technocrats. Even what it says on the use of violence is heeded by the most leftist of Western governments.
These technocratic politicians, found across the West, run the gamut from the center right to the extreme left. They lead nation-states and multinational institutions, and consider a freewheeling internet a threat to an “expert-managed” international order.