Lenin on Manufactured Consent

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28879290

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This is rich lol, coming from one of the most totalitarian leaders russia has ever had
- https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
  
  You can correctly criticize a system without implementing a better version yourself. It is, somehow, possible.
  
  I do wonder where he would rank in a top ten authoritarian Russian leaders, however, that leaderboard is a lot more competitive than we're pretending.
  
  Do the Khans count? Is there a per capita adjustment?
- Right after the Czar. Literally.
This reads as a quote against freedom of the press, which is also likely the original intention of the author, given what happened later.

I would not consider this inspiring whatsoever.

And no, that doesnt mean that I think the current system implements freedom of the press.