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by caslon
1828 days ago
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Are any of those "strongly leftist" ideas in reality? When I think of the most famous book burnings and censorship, I think of this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings), or this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism), or pretty much any case on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries Something I notice is that, whether it's nationalist Italians burning Communist literature, Germany (WWI-era) burning Catholic writings, or the Nazis burning Soviet books, it's...almost exclusively the right-wing that supports censorship, at least on the list for destroying libraries. When I think of who's actually achieved anti-censorship in the United States, I think of people like Allen Ginsberg, the reason the First Amendment actually began to mean something in the US for the first time in its history. Now, I could be wrong, but I think Ginsberg was...a leftist going against the right-wing? The left seem to have a certain libertarian bent if anything: They seem to want private enterprise to be able to host what they want. It makes sense from a free market perspective. |
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My understanding was that the "left and right" is more or less orthogonal to the "authoritarian vs libertarian" dimension. The authoritarian forms of both are absolutely terrible, that's why we have democracy: so they can do their best to cancel each other out.