Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 8, 2018
Louis-Ferdinand Celine was your typical brooding, emotional, socialistic proto-hipster Frenchman. But a very bad goy.
The concept of censoring political speech on any level implies that the population is a bunch of children that are capable of having their minds swayed in evil directions simply by reading something.
Which, I mean – okay, the average person is not really capable of critically processing information, but the theory that they are capable of doing that is the entire basis for the system of “democracy” – the fundamental assumption of universal suffrage is that each and every individual (generally only excluding the severely mentally handicapped and convicted felons) is born capable of rational and informed decision-making.
I am personally pro-free speech and anti-democracy. One could also be anti-democracy and anti-free speech or pro-democracy and pro-free speech. But the position of pro-democracy and anti-free speech is absolutely nonsensical.
Now, some European governments have started allowing some very old banned material to go into print again – but it is only legal to print it with government-written commentary alongside it! This is what Germany did with Mein Kampf, and France has now adopted this method.
It is basically even more insulting than not allowing it to be printed at all to claim that the population are such children that they need line-by-line explanations of everything they read.
RT:
The French Prime Minister says the planned publication of anti-Semitic essays by revered author Louis-Ferdinand Celine should go ahead, but be accompanied by critical commentary.
Edouard Philippe weighed in on the debate Sunday, amid heated opposition to the publication of the pamphlets by the French Jewish community.
Three 1930s texts by Celine are set to be printed by leading French publishing house Gallimard in the upcoming book ‘Polemical Writings’ in May. The pamphlets have been out of print since 1945.
Celine called for the extermination of Jews and campaigned for an alliance between France and Nazi Germany. The decision to publish his texts has sparked angry calls for the work to be banned and threats of legal action.
“There are very good reasons to detest the man himself, but you cannot deny the writer’s central position in French literature,” Philippe told Journal du Dimanche in an interview published Sunday.
“I am not afraid of the publication of these pamphlets,” he said but added that it will need to be thoughtfully accompanied.
Celine was basically the French version of Ezra Pound – an artist of the sort whom you would not expect to be converted to fascism, but who was converted based on logic and reason leading to the conclusion that under Judaism, all beauty in the world is destroyed.
Here is an English translation of “Trifles for a Massacre,” the most famous of his anti-Semitic works.