After WWII
> and the fascists, I am sure he would agree that there must be an
> exception to the general right of freedom of speech for fascistic
> racists, just like the Marxists in the socialist countries thought in
> applying Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat to that concrete
> historical situation.
Damn. I wish I had a copy of Gramsci to quote out of.
I would fully support denying freedom of speech and action to fascists - just like I would support denying such freedoms to anyone who aims to silence workers.
I would, however, not trust the capitalist state to do it for me. Most of the time that the state 'does something for me' I find that I've been done in in the process. I'd support the tactic Antonio Gramsci argued for against the original fascists in the 1920s - mass action to deny fascists freedom of action.
Same with racism everywhere, I'd argue. The capitalist state is not the answer.
Peter -- Peter van Heusden : pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk : PGP key available Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower. - Karl Marx
NOTE: I do not speak for the HGMP or the MRC.