[lbo-talk] "Freedom" of fascist speech is an absurdity

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 6 07:43:23 PST 2006


Wendy Lyon wrote:


>On 2/5/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
>> Fascist "freedom" of speech is "freedom" to advocate the abolition of
> > freedom of speech. Abolition of freedom of speech is inherent to
>any fascist
> > state, by definition of fascist state. It is absurd to argue for the
> > "freedom" to advocate the end of freedom of speech.
>
>Why?

Funny how this argument repeats the argument of rabid anticommunists, who want to censor and/or jail reds like Charles for similar reasons.

Doug



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