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Free Thought and Official Propaganda

Overview

"Free Thought and Official Propaganda" is a speech (and subsequent publication) delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence.

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Philosophers who discussed Free Thought and Official Propaganda

• Bertrand Russell
• William James
• Alfred Henry Lloyd

Related ideas

• Anarchism
• Great Britain
• Physics
• Political philosophy
• Skepticism
• Shinto
• Fallibilism
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• Republic of China (1912–1949)
• Fellow
• Bertrand Russell
• World War I
• Christianity
• Albert Einstein
• Charles Darwin
• William James
• Communism
• Alfred Henry Lloyd

Place in the tradition

Part of Bertrand Russell.

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