On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship
Marx, Karl
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Date Written: 1842-05-05
Publisher: Rheinische Zeitung No. 125, Supplement
Year Published: 1842
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX10937
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
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