We need a discussion to decide why one over the other. It seems quite important that we should understand more about systems that rule our lives to a great extent, and why we should favor either system over the other. I’ll start by sharing the opening paragraphs on Capitalist Propaganda and Communist Propaganda from Wikipedia in that order:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_propaganda
Capitalist propaganda is promotion of capitalism, often via mass media, education, or other institutions, primarily by the ruling private and political elite. Capitalist propaganda is commonly deployed in capitalist countries to maintain the cultural hegemony of capitalism, by positioning it as the supreme and only valid system, eliminating opposing and dissenting views, and portraying non-capitalist perspectives and countries as comparatively incompetent and inferior, thus reinforcing capitalism as the dominant ideology. Capitalist propaganda may have lasting psychological effects that remain in a population even if the official government of the people is no longer capitalist, which can produce political instability and rebellion. The term capitalist propaganda has been used since at least the early 20th century to describe how propaganda is used by the capitalist class to indoctrinate workers to act against their own interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_propaganda
Communist propaganda is the scientific, artistic, and social promotion of the ideology of communism, communist worldview and interests of the communist movement. While it tends to carry a negative connotation in the Western world, the term “propaganda” broadly refers to any publication or campaign aimed at promoting a cause and is/was used for official purposes by most communist-oriented governments. Rooted in Marxist thought, the propaganda of communism is viewed by its proponents as the vehicle for spreading their idea of enlightenment of working class people and pulling them away from the propaganda of who they view to be their oppressors, that they claim reinforces exploitation, such as religion or consumerism. Communist propaganda therefore stands in opposition to bourgeois or capitalist propaganda.
It seems to me from the wording in these articles that capitalist propaganda is presented here as a damaging tool of indoctrination, while communist propaganda is an antidote to that poison. The author or authors choose to describe both capitalism and communism, from the point of view of Marxist teachings.
Regardless, it seems to me that the more capitalist the system is, the more socially destructive are the effects of the media. But then, the media seems to by and large promote communist messaging? Would purely capitalist news and entertainment not be as destructive on the fabric of the western society as it is with communist influences – or is the destructive part due to capitalism itself? Does any of this make sense?
In this clip PBS – a government-funded station – is reporting on the right-wing bias of a broadcaster who put out a piece pointing out how easy it is to control the narrative in a top-down way on a national level. PBS doesn’t address the issue raised in the original piece directly. The state of US media and the world’s largest media organizations seems to be very divisive – and is it the fault of either system or simply due to the fact that there are two systems competing and each side only cares about making the other side look bad?
Meanwhile we are trending in a direction of disallowing the common folk from speaking their minds while media organizations seem to attack people left and right with impunity.
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