RES: Lots and lots of rights?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 5 11:42:43 PST 2002


Alexandre Fenelon wrote:


>-It?s interesting to read this text from Lenin, who is critical of those
>kinds
>-of restriction to access books in public libraries (and mentions the US
>-as an example to be followed in those questions).
>
>http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/jul/18.htm

Clearly that was written before Lenin realized that the U.S. was worse than Nazi Germany (so what if he died before Hitler took power - he could see into the future, and he would eventually come to *know* this), and that certain ideas were just too dangerous for the masses and had to be repressed.

Doug



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