Censorship

Censorship and restriction of "Freedoms" in socialist states is almost universally linked to the quality of life of the population
Socialist states that fail to improve quality of life and stagnate often have to employ restrictive measures as the population will quickly lose faith in socialism once they have seen the higher Quality of life of nearby capitalist countries
Thus why Nations like Ceausescu's Romania Hoxha's Albania and the DPR-Korea must employ such Harsh measures while states that succeed at consistently improving the quality of life of the proletariat like Kadar's Hungary Cuba and China have allowed more open discussion and less censorship

I think that's one of the best arguments against censorship I've heard.

It is difficult for me to imagine what 'freedom' is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not in fear of losing his job, his home, and his bread. Only in such a society, personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

Liberal.


The analogy to the pre-internet age is a false one. Censorship en-masse is not required because viewpoints are in themselves dangerous, but because they increase the signal-to-noise ratio to a dangerous degree. The marketplace of ideas was always a ridiculous concept, but in the short-attention-span internet age an anti-censorship position can only be a boon to reaction.
Now of course, that isn't to immediately argue that one must empower tech corporations to be the arbiters of good taste. What is being defended here is the principle of censorship, and not any practical route to implementation.

It involves no degree of low opinion to imagine that people under late capitalism are busy, time constrained, and so resort to using heuristics that will lead to reactionary propaganda over digging with a fucking spoon to find leftist material that isn't utterly impenetrable.

In socialism we won't be living under late-stage capitalism, we'll be living under socialism.

Let people post Nazishit on the internet or in public, then take them out back after their display and put a bullet in their head.

Read Cockshott. Direct democracy and therefore open discussion is an economic necessity

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