Free Speech Is A People’s Frank Confession To Itself
11/23/21 • 10 min
What did Karl Marx really think of Free Speech, and what does this say about the new censorious Left? Tune in for a reading (by Dane Giraud) of a recent piece penned by Free Speech Union member Daphna Whitmore that lays out the traditional Left-wing case for Free Speech and why Marx would not be "team woke!"
"The woke... view the working class as meek and defenseless, not a force that could change society. This patronizing soft bigotry couldn’t be further from Karl Marx’s view of the unified working class as the agent of change with enormous latent power" fsu.nz/join
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What did Karl Marx really think of Free Speech, and what does this say about the new censorious Left? Tune in for a reading (by Dane Giraud) of a recent piece penned by Free Speech Union member Daphna Whitmore that lays out the traditional Left-wing case for Free Speech and why Marx would not be "team woke!"
"The woke... view the working class as meek and defenseless, not a force that could change society. This patronizing soft bigotry couldn’t be further from Karl Marx’s view of the unified working class as the agent of change with enormous latent power" fsu.nz/join
https://www.fsu.nz/
https://x.com/NZFreeSpeech
https://www.instagram.com/freespeechnz/
https://www.tiktok.com/@freespeechunionnz
Previous Episode
Special Report: Facing the Fury of the Academy: The Listener Letter and Academic Freedom in New Zealand.
Is academic freedom in Aotearoa in peril?
On this emergency episode of the Free Speech Union podcast, spokesperson Jonathan Ayling sits down with Professors Kendall Clements and Garth Cooper and who co-authored the infamous Listener article several months ago, which claimed Matauranga Maori and science are not the same thing
They are now facing the fury of an offended academy, and an investigation has been launched to remove Prof. Cooper from his fellowship with the Royal Society of New Zealand. www.fsu.nz/join
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Next Episode
Interview with Journalist Rachel Stewart
When award-winning Journalist Rachel Stewart had her firearms taken off her over for a joke-tweet, New Zealand was given a chilling taste of how proposed Hate Speech laws will be misused by activists. Rachel speaks to Free Speech Union spokesperson Dane Giraud about the incident, and her getting her guns back (a fact unforgivably underreported), along with today's "war on words", the media's ignorance towards rural New Zealand, and what it feels like to be one of the "canceled". www.fsu.nz/join
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