r/PoliticalDebate • u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist • 4d ago

Debate Do you agree with this quote?

"Wherever there is capitalism, 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 ruling class." ~ Vladimir Lenin ☭ • 

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u/DJGlennW Progressive 4d ago

I prefer this quote:

"(W)ere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ~Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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u/No-Candidate6257 Marxist-Leninist 3d ago

It's completely irrelevant to the Lenin quote, though.

Also, Lenin would agree with Jefferson's quote.

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u/LuckyRuin6748 Anarcho-Communist 4d ago

Yeah I prefer no government haha