Propaganda is just another word for advertisement.
Communist propaganda usually boils down to: “This we achieved, this fucked up shit our enemies do. Here’s the evidence.” Somehow no socialist state ever made up a genocide a capitalist state supposedly comitted…
“propaganda” is a loanword for publicity imported from Italian so it could be loaded with a shitton of red scare baggage. no media is objective, and all bourgeois media pushes its class interest but does so with the benefit of capital.
using “propaganda” as a pejorative is just clinging to the liberal idea that bourgeois journalism is “objective” despite obviously being subservient to and a promoter of capital. comfortable liberals use “propaganda” to mean something is false, essentially abandoning the whole idea of critical thinking— considering the source when evaluating the information becomes “ignore the information because the author has an agenda”. again, infantile fantasy that pretends there is any author who is “objective”, who doesn’t have to eat food or have material relations within society.
Is not like Communism doesn’t have propaganda though …
Just because their bubble has none doesn’t mean yours doesn’t either.
“propaganda” is a loanword for publicity imported from Italian so it could be loaded with a shitton of red scare baggage. no media is objective, and all bourgeois media pushes its class interest but does so with the benefit of capital.
using “propaganda” as a pejorative is just clinging to the liberal idea that bourgeois journalism is “objective” despite obviously being subservient to and a promoter of capital. comfortable liberals use “propaganda” to mean something is false, essentially abandoning the whole idea of critical thinking— considering the source when evaluating the information becomes “ignore the information because the author has an agenda”. again, infantile fantasy that pretends there is any author who is “objective”, who doesn’t have to eat food or have material relations within society.