> It happened rather sooner than 40 years later I think that's a disingenuous reading of Ariel Dorfman's assertion. Dorfman is known in Latin America as the au

> It happened rather sooner than 40 years later I think that's a disingenuous reading of Ariel Dorfman's assertion. Dorfman is known in Latin America as the author of "How To Read Donald Duck" (a political book about cultural penetration) and he is of course referring specifically about the burning of his own book by Pinochet's thugs. He didn't mean this was the earliest case of censorship after WW2. Not all censorship is equal. I understand the principle of anticensorship is valuable, but it's not ok to equate banning Nazi works during Germany's denazification period to the repression and censorship during Pinochet's dictatorship. One is censorship in the aftermath of toppling a dictatorship; the other is a dictatorship doing what it does best.