To deny others the freedom of speech under seditious intention, as so defined, whilst allowing racists that same freedom is to reserve a right to speak ill of wogs, kikes and niggers but not of white anglo-celtic society.
Such be state sanctioned racism, not just a denial of freedom speech.
The founder of modern anarchism, Mikhail Bakunin, in his Revolutionary Catechism of 1866, argued for "unlimited freedom of propaganda, speech, public or private assembly, with no other restraint than the natural salutary power of public opinion."
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Yet Australia's anarchists have chosen to reject Bakunin's libertarian principle. Noam Chomsky, another noted anarchist activist, observed that "with regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards."
Australia's anarchists have chosen the fascist standards, which is both an irony and a pity.
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Mark Beljac teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, is a board member of the New International Bookshop, and is involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, National Tertiary Education Union, National Union of Workers (community) and Friends of the Earth.