June 23, 2012
"The capitalists have always used the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. In 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. They prove to be deceivers of the people, who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement. Genuine freedom and equality will be embodied in the system which the Communists are building, and in which there will be no opportunity for amassing wealth at the expense of others, no objective opportunities for putting the press under the direct or indirect power of money, and no impediments in the way of any working-person (or groups of working people in any number) for enjoying and practicing equal rights in the use of public printing-presses and public stocks of paper."

— Lenin Theses and Report on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (March 1919)

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(Notes: 128)
  
Filed under: Lenin Freedom of Speech First ammendment Freedom of press mass media Media communism socialism democracy 
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