hello zero books readers in this video
I'll consider the sad state of the far
right paraphrase the zero books titles
kill all normies and capitalism versus
freedom and consider why Marx was such a
strong advocate for free speech recently
a YouTube video was released featuring
alt light celebrities like milo
gianopolous Gavin McInnes Lauren
southern and a bunch of others but
rather than describe it for you I'll
just let you take a look
this is hilarious I wonder if they know
that they're cribbing from act ups
silence equals death campaign it's
really amongst the worst sort of
hyperbolic acting out and cry bullying
I've seen these people are not being
suppressed they have not been censored
in any significant way instead they are
the very far-right who as Angela Nagel
pointed out in her book kill all normies
took advantage of the relatively newly
developed call-out culture which was
itself the product of an unregulated and
ever-expanding
new media these poor silenced victims
have used the worst of their detractors
to propel themselves into prominence but
this tactic is wearing thin their main
approach to self-promotion has been to
provoke largely incoherent and
contradictory expressions of outrage and
rely on the Streisand effect to spread
their right-wing memes and messages only
unlike Streisand who actually did try to
use the legal system to suppress
photographs of her house that she
thought violated her privacy
she lost the case and had to pay the
defendant over a hundred thousand
dollars to cover his legal fees the
outrage generated online and on college
campuses never truly aims to stop these
ideas from being heard in the larger
marketplace of ideas but are always only
symbolic expressions of disapproval
this call-out culture has helped
left-wing and right-wing figures alike
and while online mobs can do real damage
to everyday people who aren't in the
media game for youtubers and online
pundits outraged tweets calling for
their head our mana from heaven there's
one case where outrage did hurt an
alright figures career but even then the
outrage didn't come from the left but
from the right Maya innopolis wasn't
brought down by his political and
ideological enemies but by the
Republican Party his comments about
young boys enjoying sex with older men
did him no harm
until conservative Christians caught
wind of them. [Milo is talking about when he was 13 and had relationships with older men] I was very definitely the
predator on both occasions you know as
offensive as some people will find that
at him I don't much care if anything it
is a left who is suffering under today's
bipartisan abandonment of free speech
and free thought the question is have
you ever been a member of the Communist
Party and this makes sense given the
political character of the arguments
against free speech for example in his
essay for the Washington Post entitled
free speech absolutist aren't protecting
democracy professor Jason Blakely cites
the one-time Nazi Carl Schmitt in order
to argue that democratic societies must
use the power of censorship in order to
protect democratic values from the
enemies of democracy quote liberals
according to Schmidt made the mistake of
thinking every enemy of democracy was
basically just another slightly crankier
liberal friend
for this reason Schmitt thought liberal
democracies would be too weak to defend
themselves when compared to
authoritarian societies
lately ends up suggesting that rather
than empower and entrust individuals
within a Democratic Society with
unfettered free speech we should instead
entrust the state to enforce community
values some of you may be asking
yourselves why should we be bothered
with developing citizenship
responsibilities well there are many
reasons one of the primary reasons is
that great principles do not live from
generation to generation without being
nurtured without being kept vigorously
alive unless we understand and work
effectively for the principles upon
which our American Way of life is
founded the structure will crumble and
our heritage of freedom will perish
right-wingers like Gavin McInnes and
sargon of akkad might point to neo our
cultural Marxist as a source for the
nuisance aureus Ness but the best
reputation of Blakeley and Schmidt comes
from Marx himself according to Schmidt
and Blakeley ugly and backwards ideas
reside in the minds and activities of
our enemies racist ideologies come from
the outside and a democratic society
must develop antibodies against foreign
notions from the KKK or kekaa stance but
Marx running back in 1842 in response to
the Proceedings of the six Rhine
province Assembly argued that the bad
and backward ideas that appear within a
given society are themselves a products
of that society he wrote quote does the
speaker think that the national defects
of a Free Press are not just as much
national defects of the censors are the
censors excluded from the historical
whole are they unaffected by the spirit
of a time according to Marx speech and
ideas are themselves inherently social
and therefore the degree to which the
results of expression fail to bring
progress for the whole of society is the
degree to which speech is held back by
the ruling ideas and material basis of
that society for marx a way to combat
bad ideas visit to rely on state
censorship for rather to struggle to
change the social relations and material
basis of society in his book capitalism
versus freedom professor Rob Larsen
argues that far from the free
marketplace of ideas under capitalism
providing an invisible hand to ensure
that everyone has a right to free
expression the tendency for the power of
capital to cumulate creates institutions
of power that directly penalize those
who express unpopular ideas and these
same institutions place limits on what
ideas can be heard and who can speak
today we live in a world turned upside
down as in a camera obscura a world
where the most shallow and ugly ideas
are disseminated by half-witted attempts
at censorship meanwhile the task of
developing the ideas necessary to truly
liberate society is stymied by a
capitalist system that stifles and
censors reflexively mechanically
automatically what it doesn't take away
from is the very categoric extensive
work that Marx has an time and effort
and that Marx has devoted to freedom of
the press that King I think has
obviously telescoped can come together
and filtered into what the Communist
Manifesto where there are no names or
places it's more generalities and Das
Kapital itself so so without Marx the
journalists and the kind of engagements
that he had as a scholarly journalist
there would not be I think
the Communist Manifesto or dusk of it as
we know Marx The Economist is a thanks
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