I get the feeling that despite all the hot air released on behalf of "the people," that Yoshie and Charles actually fear the people to make up their own minds. That their Marxist arguments will not sway anyone unless competing ideas are criminalized or eliminated. That's why I think you should quit school, Yoshie, so that you can actually work with the people you claim to understand and wish to uplift. The university is not the world. Get out, get your hands dirty, mix with the commoners.
DP
-It seems Yoshie is worried speciffically with racist opinions, which have -nothing to do with "radical progressive movements". To prohibit those ideas -seems to be reasonable, but: 1-Those kinds of opinion simply can´t be prohibited, their are ever ressucitating during crises. Even in France there is a racist party despite all those restrictions. So I think these restrictions are useless and, the better antidote against racism is the improvement of the conscience level of the masses. 2-However, in countries with long tradition of fascist and racist movements (like Austria, Germany and Israel, for instance), those parties must be prohibited and crushed with exemplary brutality in a hypotetical process of transition to socialism. Those relatively large minorities can be quite harmful and their negative influence over the working class cannot be tolerated.
Alexandre