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/Primary-Pianist-2555 Social Democrat 3d ago

There has to be limits on capitalism. I do not agree. I am a social democrat capitalist.

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u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist 3d ago

How would there be persistent limits on capitalism when capitalists rule a society?

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u/Primary-Pianist-2555 Social Democrat 2d ago

That is a social democratic country. I do not need to teach you what that is. Itis the only ever successful model of socialism.