Free Thought and Official Propaganda

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Bertrand Russell delivered this lecture at the South Place Institute in London on March 24, 1922, in honour of the freethought activist Moncure Conway. It is a compact, relentless argument about what happens to a society that allows its opinions to be manufactured for it — by the state, by the press, by the education system, and by the simple human preference for not thinking too hard. Russell was 50, recently back from a trip to Soviet Russia that had cured him of any sympathy for Bolshevism, and at the height of his powers as a public intellectual. The lecture runs about an hour, and in that hour he manages to be funnier, sharper, and more prescient about propaganda than most books three times its length. Duration - 56m. Author - Bertrand Russell. Narrator - Digital Voice Arthur E. Published Date - Tuesday, 27 January 2026. Copyright - © 1922 Bertrand Russell ©.

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English