Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“There’s a basic principle of free speech that the censors always seem to forget. Namely, the act of suppressing speech only tends to add more fuel to the speaker’s fire. Don’t believe me? Just ask Karl Marx. … the censors did not leave Marx alone. They hounded him out of Germany. And their efforts backfired spectacularly. Not only did the censors fail to throttle Marx’s work; they actually turbo-charged his radicalization and greatly furthered the spread of his ideas.” (07/17/25)
https://reason.com/2025/07/17/a-free-speech-lesson-from-karl-marx/