To replace capitalism and patriarchy with more rational forms of organisation means engaging with the ideologies of exploitation, mystification, and superstition. Nothing can be ruled out in this engagement, which must also address itself to every other existing point of view, and especially to the views of opponents of humanist and left wing ideas. Such views are expressed on the internet, in great profusion. You will therefore find links on these pages, not only to marxist and socialist thought, but to every kind of political and philosophical opinion. While Spark would disagree profoundly with many of these opinions, it also strongly supports the right of those who espouse them to do so.
Spark therefore rejects any attempt at censorship of any kind.
A robust democracy can exist only where tolerance for diversity of view is second nature, where the freedom to express any view is the condition for the freedom of expression of all views. Unwavering support for freedom of expression is especially important in the light of the failure of the first major attempt to build socialism in the USSR and eastern Europe. It must be clear that a factor in the failure of this endeavour was the inability of those states to defend and nurture freedom of expression. Indeed, one might say that a first test of a truly democratic society is whether it is comfortable with the fullest freedom of speech and expression. A second test of course is whether there is an even distribution of economic, social, and cultural power among its citizens.