A response to the following quote by Leon Trotsky here.
The real tasks of the workers’ state do not consist in policing public opinion, but in freeing it from the yoke of capital. This can only be done by placing the means of production – which includes the production of information – in the hands of society in its entirety. Once this essential step towards socialism has been taken, all currents of opinion which have not taken arms against the dictatorship of the proletariat must be able to express themselves freely. It is the duty of the workers’ state to put in their hands, to all according to their numeric importance, the technical means necessary for this, printing presses, paper, means of transportation.
What about when everyone has the means to express themselves freely as well as the means of transporation? What if, presented with these means, a person still does not take up the cause against the bourgeois? What if they simply write about celebrities’ misadventures,
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