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China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Any ideology that bans books is self-evidently intellectually and philosophically bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, Pure Socialism vs. Siege Socialism
Understanding Siege Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Aldous Huxley was right[1] What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't consider it an ideological thing, but more of a strategic decision by Xi et al.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But why ban Hilary Clinton's book? What sort of crazed ideology would be there that could be a threat to the current government?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

neoliberalism and "liberal internationalism", also known as austerity, IMF debt, coups d'etat, getting bombed by NATO and signing Status of Forces Agreements

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So why is the ideology so dangerous that it is banned?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ask Libyans in specific case of Clinton and everyone in global south about neoliberalism in general. It should be treated exactly like nazism in Nuremburg.