I'm trying to point out to the censorial wing of the left that if they support censorship, they'll be among its victims. I agree the right sometimes suffers too, but historically, they've been the ones who promote it.
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The left is always pro-censorship, from the French Revolution to the Bolsheviks to today’s identity left. The right stands for freedom. The left supports free speech to the extent it can be used to seize power, then it squashes the right absolutely.
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The freedom that the right stands for was the freedom to own slaves. Now it stands for the freedom to rent them.
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The left merely changes private slavery of a sort that allows for a liberty-loving elite into an absolute slavery in obedience to the state. The left creates societies, such as the USSR, where no one is free and everyone is a slave.
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Do you think Orwell wasn't a leftist? “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” —George Orwell
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Orwell was on the left initially. Then he realised it results in mass murder and doesn’t work. His later work is anti-socialist—officially he clung on to calling himself a leftist, but he was leaving the left as he died (see, cooperating with MI5 against commies).
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Okay, your ideology is so profound you cannot even read what he said, or understand that his list was not of communists in general but of Stalinists in particular.
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Stalinists put a stop to the leftward insanity spiral, as Cromwell did during the English Civil War, but he was still the left. Trotskyists are even more bloodthirsty than Stalinists, and they’re both bad—being leftists.
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