Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime

[Michael Perelman]

Doug, if LBO were effective in mobilizing socialist activity, you could not
write what you did.  Just as if I were to do a good enough job teaching Marx, I
would be gone in a moment.

Fortunately, for the ruling class, self-censorship does a better job than heavy
handed government censorship -- a point that Chomsky makes very effectively.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Oh come now Charles. I'm not likely to get arrested for publishing LBO, and
> you're not likely to get arrested for anything you post to this list. We
> may get ignored, harassed, whatever, but we do have considerable freedom of
> speech. That was not true of the USSR. I know there are all kinds of
> constraints on our media, lots of subtle forms of censorship, but our
> formal guarantees of freedom of speech are still worth something.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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