Fascist suppression of dissident publishing came through administrative bans and harassment
Evidence
His activity, including a publishing house founded in 1923 and a new fortnightly Baretti in addition to La Rivoluzione Liberate , continued despite constant police harassment until the end of 1925, when he was forbidden to edit or publish anything further. He decided to go into exile, and died almost immediately of bronchitis and heart failure. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1937
Categorization
- SEED: A concrete case for how a regime shuts down opposition media through bureaucratic-legal throttling rather than overt censorship — a parallel mechanism to how state repression curbs independent knowledge production.
- XREF: connects to: American occupation authorities suppressed critical German publications and even Faulkner novels — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1722