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Is "free-speech" an idealistic concept and if so how do Marxist deal with the problem of the idealism involved in the concept of "free-speech"? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Free speech is idealist in the same way that the free market is idealist. Some people will have the resources and authority to make their voices (or the voices of those who agree with them) louder than others, and drown them out.

Like, if you are THE socialist political entity, you should let people say what they want, and you should listen. And after listening, you should use dialectical and historical materialism to filter out progressive ideas from reactionary ones, and develop a mass line that’s neither falls into commandism or tailism.

Something something have faith in the masses.