Saturday, December 31, 2022
Free Speech
I.F. Stone (1907-1989), The Trial of Socrates (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), p. ix:
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This project had its roots in a belief that no society is good, whatever its intentions, whatever its utopian and liberationist claims, if the men and women who live in it are not free to speak their minds. I hoped that such a study would help a new generation, not only to preserve free speech where it exists — and is always threatened from motives good as well as bad — but to help embattled dissidents in the communist world find their way to a liberating synthesis of Marx and Jefferson.
