Every time I see westerns post some 
shit the usual response is “well propaganda is a hell of a drug”.
But if western propaganda is really that effective, how the fuck did we get here? I’d think if it was really this good at melting people’s brain’s it’d be effective enough to prevent communities like this from even existing. So like are we special or something?
Also raises the question, if we’re able to get over this BS, wtf is everyone else’s excuse for falling hook-line-and-sinker for it?
the mistake the eastern bloc made with regards to propaganda is that they’d perceive a small, ineffectual, minority opposition paper as a problem, and try to stamp it out.
turns out, letting people see but at the same time discrediting and undermining the opposition really sells the illusion of a free society. never relinquish the power to crack down, to disappear and assassinate these people, but as long as they’re fringe, and the majority of people think they’re freaks–let em’ be.
I wish that were possible for communists, but without a large world-scale united movement with similar power to the capitalist structures, this is just wishful thinking. I think China is legitimately the best possible in this regard at this moment. And with Cuba being very close behind. It was an impossible task to allow the propaganda with such recent fascist movements still influencing people in the eastern block. They were never just "freaks " in many of these places. How do you contend with them then? I think China is doing well