HomeUploadUpload DirectHotlinkRandomAbouttheme toggle
Expand

Spiked's Brendan O'Neill: "The Real Threat To Free Speech Now is Conformism and Cowardice"

Views:976
@ReasonVids

"The real threat to free speech now is conformism and cowardice," says Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked and a columnist for Reason.com.

The 41-year-old Londoner has similarly blunt and outspoken views about "left-wing environmentalism," which he calls "an apology for poverty" and simply the latest iteration of religious "end-of-worldism" in which "we will be judged for our sins."

O'Neill is also a critic of European policies that he says marginalize religious and ethnic minorities even as they "protect" immigrants by passing hate-speech laws and banning burqas. "In their efforts to enforce Enlightenment values," he says, policymakers "actually undercut them."

O'Neill got his start at the defunct Living Marxism, the publication of Britain's Revolutionary Communist Party, and these days he sometimes calls himself a "Marxist libertarian." "It seems like a contradiction in terms," he acknowledges, "but that's because people haven't read the original Marx and Engels, the early stuff...if you read the early stuff it's all about liberating humanity from poverty and from state diktat and allowing them to have as free a life as possible."

In this lively, wide-ranging interview with Nick Gillespie, O'Neill also defends consumerism and explains that Spiked's mission is to deliver on Trotsky's belief that "we want to increase the power of man over nature and decrease the power of man over man."

About 12 minutes.

Edited by Amanda Winkler. Camera by Meredith Bragg and Todd Krainin.

Go to https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/12/21/spikeds-brendan-oneill-qa-conformism-is for downloadable versions and subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube Channel to receive notifications when new material goes live.

free minds
,
free markets
,
reason magazine
    Thumbnail for Pentagon Slush Fund is Draining the Economy and Militarizing Foreign Policy10:32
    Pentagon Slush Fund is Draining the Economy and Militarizing Foreign Policy
    ReasonVids
    826 views
    Thumbnail for That niglet's going places0:30
    That niglet's going places
    bestofupgoat
    63 views
    Thumbnail for Kurt Loder on Film: The Good, the Bad, & the Godawful4:21
    Kurt Loder on Film: The Good, the Bad, & the Godawful
    ReasonVids
    1033 views
    Thumbnail for Resolved: 15 Million Americans Would Be Better Off Without Welfare1:24:52
    Resolved: 15 Million Americans Would Be Better Off Without Welfare
    ReasonVids
    754 views
    Thumbnail for Complete Cohencidence - How it fits together 5:19
    Complete Cohencidence - How it fits together
    voatcatbox
    366 views
    Thumbnail for 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚋𝚎 𝚄𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎2:33
    𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚋𝚎 𝚄𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎
    AOU
    1932 views
    Thumbnail for Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?4:23
    Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?
    ReasonVids
    927 views
    Thumbnail for Real Nigga Workout0:28
    Real Nigga Workout
    bestofupgoat
    123 views
    Thumbnail for Fake MAGA Opens Security Doors2:19
    Fake MAGA Opens Security Doors
    LibertyIsTheLaw
    70469 views
    Thumbnail for Why Democrats Should Vote Libertarian This Year, According to Libertarian Party Members3:27
    Why Democrats Should Vote Libertarian This Year, According to Libertarian Party Members
    ReasonVids
    896 views
    Thumbnail for Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Try to Take Family Motel from Innocent Owners3:34
    Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Try to Take Family Motel from Innocent Owners
    IJvids
    847 views
    Thumbnail for Streets of Dreams: Challenging Atlanta's Street Vending Monopoly4:15
    Streets of Dreams: Challenging Atlanta's Street Vending Monopoly
    IJvids
    1034 views
    Thumbnail for STOP. NOTICING.0:21
    STOP. NOTICING.
    bestofvoatxyz
    904 views
    Thumbnail for ‘I didn’t realize people still think socialism is a good idea.’14:25
    ‘I didn’t realize people still think socialism is a good idea.’
    ReasonVids
    886 views
    Thumbnail for Richard Viguerie on the Future of Conservatism7:34
    Richard Viguerie on the Future of Conservatism
    ReasonVids
    833 views
    Thumbnail for Lavabit's Ladar Levison on Snowden, Why He Shut Down, and How to Beat the NSA15:46
    Lavabit's Ladar Levison on Snowden, Why He Shut Down, and How to Beat the NSA
    ReasonVids
    909 views
    Thumbnail for Gaming On a USB Graphics Card Adapter | RandomGaminginHD8:04
    Gaming On a USB Graphics Card Adapter | RandomGaminginHD
    invidious
    348 views
    Thumbnail for Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'1:01:43
    Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'
    ReasonVids
    966 views
    Thumbnail for What Should Have Happened at the Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings6:26
    What Should Have Happened at the Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings
    ReasonVids
    896 views
    Thumbnail for Should You Marry a Single Mom? 12:32
    Should You Marry a Single Mom?
    Terrence Popp
    810 views
    Thumbnail for Remy: Savage (Megan Thee Stallion Coronavirus Bailout Zoom Parody)1:25
    Remy: Savage (Megan Thee Stallion Coronavirus Bailout Zoom Parody)
    ReasonVids
    984 views
    Thumbnail for Born to steal0:19
    Born to steal
    bestofupgoat
    107 views
    Thumbnail for Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students.7:23
    Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students.
    ReasonVids
    963 views
    Thumbnail for The Canadian Housing Crisis Explained | The Plain Bagel22:32
    The Canadian Housing Crisis Explained | The Plain Bagel
    invidious
    389 views
    Thumbnail for Why Buildings Need Foundations | Practical Engineering14:51
    Why Buildings Need Foundations | Practical Engineering
    invidious
    369 views

points

Permalink
Reply
free minds
,
free markets
,
reason magazine
TOS  •  Add Keywords  •  Donate  •   Analytics  •   DMCA  •   Puzzle