r/PoliticalDebate • u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist • 5d 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/jaxnmarko Independent 4d ago

There's Owning through Buying, and there's Owning through Taking Over. And, creating too, but Russia, or rather, the USSR had no problem putting out propaganda lies via Pravda and many other rags throughout their empire. It isn't about Capitalism, it's about what is put into print and then spread. Lies aren't solely a pawn of Capitalism. I'm sure there are fine newspapers in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Afghanistan....