"Actually the US has freedom of speech" is such baby-brained bullshit. The US systematically murdered and imprisoned the entire black nationalist movement. Steven Donziger was just sentenced to six months (after two years of house arrest) for exposing Chevron. You can't become a citizen if you're a Communist. There are specific restrictions on filming agriculture because of how horrific the conditions are.
There are a million examples of the US infringing on its mythical "freedom of speech" if you're capable of looking past "well actually the first amendment says..."
Why doesn’t the state or cops go after right wing and reactionary movements that do even more outright criminal activities, but will burn down the black Panthers headquarters and literally piss on food stored for a free breakfast program for black youth in Chicago?
Why were Red Squads created to stop leftists from giving speeches and organizing? If we have free speech, why are we stopped from spreading information and discussing things like unions at work?
Maybe free speech only applies as long as it promotes the capitalist notion and project, and anything that goes against it will be cracked down upon by the state.
It's a magazine that says you should listen to Marx's ideas. Doesn't that make it a Marxist publication by the definition you're using?
:what-the-hell:
You can't assert that the US has a free press and that Jacobin and Teen Vogue are Marxist and then act like I'm stupid for pushing back on that lmao
Yeah, I can.
Liberal
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one getting :LIB: vibes from them lol
"Actually the US has freedom of speech" is such baby-brained bullshit. The US systematically murdered and imprisoned the entire black nationalist movement. Steven Donziger was just sentenced to six months (after two years of house arrest) for exposing Chevron. You can't become a citizen if you're a Communist. There are specific restrictions on filming agriculture because of how horrific the conditions are.
There are a million examples of the US infringing on its mythical "freedom of speech" if you're capable of looking past "well actually the first amendment says..."
They weren't murdered and imprisoned for what they were saying, but what they were doing.
Their written works remain in circulation, even venerated by the state.
He wasn't sentenced for speaking out. He was sentenced for pressing a judgement against Chevron's property with intent to take it.
You can't become a citizen pretty much full stop. The process is expensive, lengthy, and hyper-exclusionary.
The closest to the mark, although - again - the real crime is threatening profitable consumption. The reality of factory farming isn't a secret.
The US failing to faithfully implement the policy does not mean the policy doesn't exist.
There you go again. Lol
Why doesn’t the state or cops go after right wing and reactionary movements that do even more outright criminal activities, but will burn down the black Panthers headquarters and literally piss on food stored for a free breakfast program for black youth in Chicago?
Why were Red Squads created to stop leftists from giving speeches and organizing? If we have free speech, why are we stopped from spreading information and discussing things like unions at work?
Maybe free speech only applies as long as it promotes the capitalist notion and project, and anything that goes against it will be cracked down upon by the state.
Laughably baby-brained Liberal shit. "They didn't say they were prosecuting him for his speech when they prosecuted him for his speech!"
Do Assange, Snowden, and Manning next
Hog out or log out :LIB: