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Originally Posted by roachboy
i read somewhere that the way marx & engels would work was that marx would choose all the consonants and engels all the vowels.
on the topic at hand, i think at some point the Man figured out that banning books outright was a form of free advertising. better to engage in repressive tolerance. you know, like marcuse talked about in the one-dimensional man: the system deals with dissent by accepting it's premises. much more efficient.
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Engels was a lot better writer than Marx in terms of style and certainly was better at writing a popular pamphlett. It was an interesting relationship: Marx, who alienated and fell out with just about everyone in his life, probably could count Engels as his only real friend. Engels is the only person Marx ever apologised to (after they fell out when Marx made a flippant remark about the death of a woman Engels cared about)
I agree that some books SHOULD be banned.
An instruction book for making an atomic bomb should be banned.
A disgusting book of child pornography should be banned.
Books inciting hatrid against one segment of society in a very blatant way should be banned.
But banning literature isnt something that can be done lightly - I would only recomend criminalising the most disgusting filth or very dangerous material.