"They are not 'free speech,' in a vacuum. They are all, top to bottom, dishonest arguments in service of maintaining a highly unequal power arrangement that advantages the company and disadvantages the workers and that over time results in workers living worse lives, economically and socially and politically."
"They are not 'free speech,' in a vacuum. They are all, top to bottom, dishonest arguments in service of maintaining a highly unequal power arrangement that advantages the company and disadvantages the workers and that over time results in workers living worse lives, economically and socially and politically."
No, these are all still "free speech," paradigmatic examples, really. Convincing workers that both they and the owning class share in some universal right is the same as convincing them that they both share some bond called Patriotism. Personally, I think we need to stop concocting these procedural exceptions and recognize "Freedom of Speech" as just another mystification of capitalist domination.
"They are not 'free speech,' in a vacuum. They are all, top to bottom, dishonest arguments in service of maintaining a highly unequal power arrangement that advantages the company and disadvantages the workers and that over time results in workers living worse lives, economically and socially and politically."
No, these are all still "free speech," paradigmatic examples, really. Convincing workers that both they and the owning class share in some universal right is the same as convincing them that they both share some bond called Patriotism. Personally, I think we need to stop concocting these procedural exceptions and recognize "Freedom of Speech" as just another mystification of capitalist domination.