turkishbolshevik: “…The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. In this respect, too, the defenders of “pure democracy” prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media.”  - Lenin, First Congress of the Communist International, Thesis and Report on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat View high resolution

turkishbolshevik:

“…The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. In this respect, too, the defenders of “pure democracy” prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media.” 

- Lenin, First Congress of the Communist International, Thesis and Report on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

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