• @Lemmy_Mouse
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    141 year ago

    5 points about non-linear propaganda:

    1. We don’t have to analyze every contradiction to perfection and to understand the picture 100%, we just have to pay more attention than the narrative spinners. The bourgeois’ interests will constantly reemerge as constant, evident, streams of actions.

    2. Marxism actually allows us to cut through all of the fluff to identify the genuine trends.

    3. Once a clear understanding of the situation is obtained, what is known to be bs can be cast aside, thus increasing proficiency and productivity within the process.

    4. Non-linear propaganda is nothing more than rehashed Menshevik tactics. It’s controlled opposition, with a shotgun method (Trump’s every possibility including the truth tactic) applied to propaganda. Although the truth’s they choose have been selective, these “leaks” have not crippled the system.

    5. Mao has already developed a solution to this: No one and nothing is above criticism. One must simply make this the default approach, to assume one is approaching you in bad faith so as to insulate oneself from manipulation. This comes natural for many of us in the core. After all, lying is more American than apple pie or genocide.