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Which actually brings to mind Huxley's brave new world because in brave new world the terrifying authoritarian state is obsessed with making people happy

Brendan O'Neill references Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' to illustrate the danger of an authoritarian state obsessed with making people happy.

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you know they remind me of one of the greatest things ever written about freedom of speech was titled a plea for free speech by Frederick Douglas former slave of course become abolitionist one of my favorite figures from American history he took part in a abolitionist meeting in Boston and it was shut down by hecklers the pro-slavery hecklers who invaded this meeting and prevent it from taking place Frederick Douglass was so shocked by this that he wrote a plea for free speech in which he said

Brendan O'Neill mentions Frederick Douglass's writing 'A Plea for Free Speech' and the context in which it was written (an abolitionist meeting shut down by hecklers) to argue against modern informal censorship tactics.

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but you know the problem with anti capitalism today is that it's incredibly it hates all the things about capitalism that the early Marx is actually quite liked which is international trade the internationalization of trade even the consumer society in the Grundy's Marx wrote about the wonders of advertising

Brendan O'Neill mentions 'the Grundy's' (likely Grundrisse) by Marx in the context of early Marxist views on capitalism, specifically mentioning Marx's writing about advertising.

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and it's a point John Stuart Mill makes in on Liberty John Stuart Mill often argued that the worst kind of censorship is not necessarily legal or state censorship it's often what he called the informal tyranny of custom where there's just this expectation that you will go along with the conformist mainstream view

Brendan O'Neill references John Stuart Mill's book 'On Liberty' to discuss the concept of informal censorship or the 'tyranny of custom'.

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If you read the communist manifesto which I recommend to all your viewers they must read the communist manifesto the first nine or ten pages are devoted to praising the capitalist class praising them for the wonders of what they created the new system of production they brought in

Brendan O'Neill recommends reading 'The Communist Manifesto' and discusses its surprising praise for capitalism in the early pages.

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