The problem is that if you lack the full means of submerging someone’s life in propaganda, your own counter-propaganda can be used by the state propagandists (who do have the full means of indoctrination) to further their own cause. Your slogans become means of identifying ‘extremists’ and enemies of mainstream society, which in turn makes your full, logical arguments even less accessible to most people. That is why libertarianism has only made headway with people who are intellectually capable and honest. The attempts at sloganeering (e.g. the ‘Tea Party’) have been counter-productive and will remain so as long as the means of propaganda are controlled by propagandists for the state.
If you got the feeling that Marx was a tad on the moronic side when you were reading the Commie Manifesto, then you’ve really got the gist of what Marxism is, in general.
Indeed. The more you read of and about Marx, the more shocking it is that this guy’s thought has been so influential in world history. But then again, religion sells, doesn’t it?
The problem is that if you lack the full means of submerging someone’s life in propaganda, your own counter-propaganda can be used by the state propagandists (who do have the full means of indoctrination) to further their own cause. Your slogans become means of identifying ‘extremists’ and enemies of mainstream society, which in turn makes your full, logical arguments even less accessible to most people. That is why libertarianism has only made headway with people who are intellectually capable and honest. The attempts at sloganeering (e.g. the ‘Tea Party’) have been counter-productive and will remain so as long as the means of propaganda are controlled by propagandists for the state.
In other words, the propagandist with the loudest bull-horn wins. Yea, I’d say that generally holds true. It’s an uphill battle, what can I say… : (
Well in the commie mannifesto itself it says on the first line that it is fake.
A specter of communism?
A specter is fake.
@ kelvin silva
i was a border in the 1990s at the worlds first state secondary school nelson collage new zealand(every student was constantly reminded of the fact) .the boarding houses built in the 1930s ran out of money, so they couldn’t afford a roof till the 1950s or windows till the 1960s. i was told by a old boy who was their at the time that every year the parents were told they would have a roof by the end of the year.(economics needs a no window theory).the daily routine read like the worst days of the cultural revolution morning runs from 6 till 7.my economics teacher was a politician mp for new zealand first (our racist political party) .my science teacher didn’t believe in evolution.