{"id":7935,"date":"2014-05-26T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/26\/what-ever-happened-to-mario-savio-from-free-speech-to-no-speech-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:02:28","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-mario-savio-from-free-speech-to-no-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/26\/what-ever-happened-to-mario-savio-from-free-speech-to-no-speech-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ever Happened to Mario Savio? From Free Speech to No Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mario<\/a>Some of us are old enough to remember Mario Savio<\/a> and the 1964 Free Speech Movement.  But then the young radicals of those days, many of whom had a legitimate point or two against the Establishment, began the "long march through the institutions" and are now the Establishment, still fancying that they are "speaking truth to power" even as they control the levers of power.  Unfortunately, power has corrupted them. Former radicals have hardened into dogmatic apparatchiks of political correctness and unbending authoritarians.   What began as a free speech movement has transmogrified into a no speech movement, as Ron Radosh shows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the very start of the early New Left \u2014 circa the 1964-65 academic year \u2014 students in Berkeley, California, started what was called the Free Speech Movement<\/a> (FSM). Back in those days, university administrators did not allow early supporters of the civil rights movement to try to gather support on campus or solicit donations to various civil rights organizations. The police were called in to arrest the offenders, mass arrests were made, and giant rallies surrounding the Sproul Hall steps had nationwide repercussions, including a backlash to the protests from California residents who backed Ronald Reagan\u2019s campaign for governor of California a few years later. Reagan emphasized his opposition to the actions of the student radicals.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also led to a speech<\/a> by a young student named Mario Savio, whose following words sound today like a clarion call by a libertarian:<\/span><\/p>\n

But we\u2019re a bunch of raw materials that don\u2019t mean to be \u2014 have any process upon us. Don\u2019t mean to be made into any product! Don\u2019t mean \u2014 Don\u2019t mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We\u2019re human beings! \u2026 There\u2019s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious \u2014 makes you so sick at heart \u2014 that you can\u2019t take part. You can\u2019t even passively take part. And you\u2019ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you\u2019ve got to make it stop. And you\u2019ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you\u2019re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

How times have changed. The very New Left students of that era \u2014 so many of whom now run the universities against which they once protested \u2014 have moved from support of free speech to what might be termed the \u201cNo Speech Movement.\u201d Or, perhaps more accurately, speech for which only those whom they approve should be allowed. Nowhere has this been clearer than in the various incidents surrounding invited graduation speakers at some of the most well-known private liberal arts colleges as well as one state university.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of us are old enough to remember Mario Savio and the 1964 Free Speech Movement.  But then the young radicals of those days, many of whom had a legitimate point or two against the Establishment, began the "long march through the institutions" and are now the Establishment, still fancying that they are "speaking truth … Continue reading “What Ever Happened to Mario Savio? From Free Speech to No Speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}