cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4681667

Vladimir Lenin on bourgeois media

All over the world, Wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

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VLADIMIR LENIN

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    6 months ago

    an important reminder that the “government” and the “state” are not the same exact entity and in a capitalist society the media which is run by the capitalist class is also “state run media”