TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell,Bertrand
TI  - Free Thought and Official Propaganda
T2  - Conway Memorial Lecture: 1922
AV  - HM 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Free thought
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Propaganda
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N2  - "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" by Bertrand Russell is a speech delivered in 1922. Russell examines how governments suppress freedom of expression through education, propaganda, and economic control. He argues against blind certainty and advocates for rational doubt, contrasting William James's "will to believe" with his own "will to doubt." Drawing from personal experiences of censorship and discrimination, Russell demonstrates how political establishments punish dissenting voices, whether religious, political, or scientific, and warns that intellectual freedom exists nowhere without restriction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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ER  -