Hate crimes

[Charles Brown]

For example, there are a number of specific proposals in _The Manifesto of the 
Communist Party_ that Engels said were even out of date by the time he wrote a later preface.  The essay you post ( repost from Angela) concerns a specific law in Germany in 18something. It is not a general essay on the subject of bourgeois freedoms or whatever. I think Germany at that time had nothing like the U.S. First Amendment. And no doubt, the censorship law was going to be applied to lefties.  So, all these concrete differences in time and place would have to be taken into account in deciding how to apply Marx's argument there in today U.S.A. to fascistic racists in a post WWII world.

CB


>>> "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> 10/16/99 04:07PM >>>
You do in the last post I was responding to , if you think Marx's statement there means no anti-hate speech laws today.

CB


>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 10/16/99 03:58PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:


>It is not I who construes Marxism as a dogma.

Who is it then?

Doug