On Revolutionary Freedom

The case of Republica [the Portuguese socialist paper taken over by the Communists and MFA] is not simply a revelation of the internal conflicts affecting the destiny of the Portuguese revolution. It is also a revelation of our own capacity to analyze and pinpoint, politically and sociologically, the problem of freedom of the press. . . .

The problem of freedom of the press presents us with a paradox. Many of those for whom freedom of the press is both an absolute good and a p...