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“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

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“Let a hundred flowers bloom”

Posted on March 14, 2024 by simonings

Thanks to the recent publication of Engineers of Human Souls, I got to discuss censorship, free speech and modern China with journalist Yuan Yang and philosopher Jeffrey Howard when Rana Mitter hosted Radio 3’s Free Thinking on 19 March 2024. The programme is available on BBC Sounds.

Posted in BBC, books, Engineers of Human Souls, events, fact
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