Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
- 15a) War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My commentary follows:
I detected two biases in this otherwise excellent article: the
understandable bias of George Orwell and the bias of Rod Driver whose
immersion in capitalist propaganda explains his bias. I'll not get into
all the propaganda uses of the word "communism", but it is a word that
is diametrically opposed to capitalism, and this explains why communism
is always and everywhere trashed in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.
You have to know about the history of the Soviet Union to understand how
this word is used to defame communism. You have to know about the
visceral hatred and actual deeds that capitalist ideologues have toward,
and against, any system that opposes the private ownership and control
of the economy. But you will have a hard time to access information
about either subject in any location where the Empire exists--such is
the power of capitalist ruling classes to censor and propagandize any
subject.
Understanding Orwell's attitude toward the Soviet Union is derived from his experience fighting for the newly elected government in Spain during the 1930s. This experience added to an understanding of the history of the Soviet Union illuminates Orwell's attitude toward what he saw as "communism", but in reality was central planning of the economy by a privileged bureaucratic class as represented by Stalinist rule. To create this understanding, read my commentary of a year ago in which I criticized Rainer Shea's article and explained why the Soviet Union withdrew forces from the Spanish Civil War. I would add the factual history that the Soviets were severely degraded by the constant invasions from many capitalist countries, mainly by the British Empire that aspired to rule the world and which had a visceral antagonism against any form of socialism, or public ownership and control of the economy.
- I’m Blocked From Uploading to GooTube (and Other News) by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.