Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:25:29 -0500
From: Michael Snell-Feikema <sfeikema-AT-mach3ww.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: Fascism&freespeech


At 11:34 AM 6/22/97 +0000, Karl Carlile wrote:
>KARL: Just a while ago I had a discussion with some people from the
>radical left concerning fascism. They were of the view that the Left
>should fight for the denial of free speech to fascists.
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>Basically I argued that it is politically incorrect for
>revolutionary socialism (which is virtually non-existent) under
>present conditions fight for the denial of free speech to fascists
>in public places or in acadmeci institutions etc.

When it comes to this, I beleive in letting even fascists have free speech.
Free speech is sacred. You must attack a bad ideology on the basis of
ideas, not by silencing it (of course, your free to use force against them
if they do it to you).
Remember, the capitalist democracies can just as easily censor socialists
as they can fascists.

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