China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party

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Imagine risking your job or going to jail to read Hillary Clinton's book.
- Imagine being a "party official" for the very party that would "crack down" on you for your reading list.
Oh no, not war criminal Clinton and bourgeois horseshoe theorist Arendt 😱
Any ideology that bans books is self-evidently intellectually and philosophically bankrupt.
- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, Pure Socialism vs. Siege Socialism
  
  Understanding Siege Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
  
  Aldous Huxley was right[1] What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
  
  Tankie apologetics.
- I wouldn't consider it an ideological thing, but more of a strategic decision by Xi et al.
  
  But why ban Hilary Clinton's book? What sort of crazed ideology would be there that could be a threat to the current government?

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