• modestmeme@lemmy.world
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    The same Times that sane-washed Trump right into the White House (along with the big three networks, LA Times, Washington Post, etc…)

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      All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

      • Lenin

      It has always been this way

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/21/98786796.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

    But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

    A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: “You can’t expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them.”

    From the paper that brought you Hitler.