On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Marx, Karl
/CxArchive/MIA/marx/works/1842/free-press/index.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1842/free-press/index.htmPublisher: Rheinische Zeitung
Date Written: 12/05/1842
Year Published: 1842
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX10940
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
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