Vladimir Lenin explains why you shouldn’t trust Western media
Vladimir Lenin explains why you shouldn’t trust Western media
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Lenin was ahead of his time. Even now, if you go around saying what Lenin said, you’d be called a conspiracy theorist.
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Marx did mention about the large-scale deception by the Capitalist class with his claim about class consciousness and the awareness of the workers of their oppression. That is the reason why many media outlet could afford to spread information for free. Now the media companies also gather user's data without the consent of the users as payment for "free stuff".
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The amount of lies people blindly believe about any AES Asian country is insane. Even Cuba and Venezuela don't get that kind of treatment.
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"Both western and eastern media are bad" has "neither Washington nor Moscow/Beijing" vibes. Which basically translate to meaning "stop calling out my intellectual dishonestly and let me support white fascists in peace."
For those interested in an analysis and takedown of the trope: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/the-fallacy-of-denouncing-both-sides-of-the-us-china-conflict/
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I would argue that it is significantly more free in socialist countries, because you have the opportunity to learn about capitalism and communism. You get stories about the struggles of the working class in mainstream media, and develop class consciousness.
Whereas in capitalist countries, you only get to hear one side, and media is only created to support the ideologies of the regime.
You ever wonder why Hollywood movies are so formulaic and repetitive? It’s because they all follow the monomyth story structure, to subliminally promote capitalist ideals and individualism.
It’s not until that you understand the purpose of propaganda, the organization of propaganda, and the propaganda model, that you can appreciate how prevalent it is and how difficult it is to escape it.
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