I think this quote is useless. It is not controversial or important. It's the publisher's preference. More power to him.
Walt

What do I think?
I think you all should have read the Wikipedia article before you do your write-only communications here.
He was a Marxist. Like you commenters, you write more than you read, so he probably never read Das Kapital. But his ideas were spot on. Of course he's going to object to government-business alliance just as the Occupy Movement does today. But the reason they do in both cases is because business is the bad guy, not government.

I think it is useless. What he should have said is "By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrongly and the right to teach others wrong things." In the Soviet Union it was never against the law to believe in capitalism. It was only illegal to teach a belief in capitalism.

This Rousseau quote is one of the best of all time. Wow. I wonder if the government removing of choices is the best example of "keeping the appearance of freedom"? If not, can someone come up with an example of "keeping the appearance of freedom" ? --Walt

Boy, the commenters are right. Get this one out of here. I can't find Dobbins, so clearly he's a personal friend of the website owner. Maybe it's his 8 year old son. Hey, commenters... How about we improve it? Let me start . . . "The GOP has as much commitment to small government as the Democratic Party has . . . ---to freedom.

I think this quote by Lenzen, makes no sense at all and should be removed from this very valuable website. I dare anyone to say in a few words what Lenzen is saying here.