racist opinion a crime ?

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Mar 30 08:52:49 PST 2001


Charles Brown:
> CB: Well, vous savez, Engels and Marx had this rough formula
> that England was first in economics, Germany first in philosophy,
> and France first in politics; and today France is ahead of the
> U.S. on this question of political speech.

Gordon:
> As long as you like having the bourgeoisie tell you what you
> can say through the government as well as the corporations
> and the academic system. Extensions of bourgeois control
> don't look like progress to me.

Charles Brown:
> CB: Surely you know that the bourgeoisie in the U.S. are
> telling you what you can say through the governrment
> ( federal, state, county, city, courts, police) as well as
> the corporations , especially the monopoly media and the
> bosses at work on the job where there is no freedom of speech
> at all, and the academic system as much as or more than in
> France and most other places. There isn't less state control
> of speech in the U.S than in France. Have you studied the
> history of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the First
> Amendment ? The history of the FBI's use of paralegal terror
> to control speech ?

I'm asking you why you want to encourage and legitimate this sort of thing. The bourgeois State should be abolished, not employed, especially not to posture about its noble protection of the rights of minorities and historical truth.



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