Episode · The Rubin Report · 2017-12-01
Books mentioned on Free Speech: Hypocrisy of Antifa & the Radical Left | Brendan O’Neill | FREE SPEECH | Rubin Report
Brendan O'Neill recommended The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and others, and discussed On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it by Frederick Douglass, Grundrisse by Karl Marx, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a classic 1959 political essay that serves as one of history's most robust defenses of individual freedom, free expression, and intellectual liberty.
Discussed“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”
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Great plea for freedom, read it and you cannot resist it
Discussed“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”
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that outlines class struggle and the core tenets of communism.
Recommended“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”
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Grundrisse
Grundrisse by Karl Marx is a massive and influential collection of preliminary notebooks written in 1857 and 1858 that laid the theoretical groundwork for Das Kapital, focusing on the critique of political economy, capitalism, and production.
Discussed“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”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“actually brings to mind Huxley's brave new world because in brave new world the terrifying authoritarian state is obsessed with making people happy”
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