Home MEDIA FRONT

MEDIA FRONT

by shorty
image_pdfimage_print
Our articles depend on you for their effectiveness. Share with kin, coworkers and friends.

Tactics & Strategies For the Battle of Communications


PRECIS: Patrice Greanville

For most of its history, the US left has neglected or been incapable of developing a robust independent media apparatus of its own.  By "left" I do not mean the centrist liberals, especially Democrats, who have almost somnambulistically co-opted the label "leftist" and have their own viewpoint amply represented throughout the corporate machine as well as supposedly "public venues (NPR, PBS, etc.), their ludicrous usage of the word ironically validated by too many ignorant and fanatical rightwingers for whom any form of state intervention or non-individualistic solution is tyranny with both liberaloids and true radicals dumped in the same shredder reserved for "leftists".

Caitlin Johnstone

Obviously there are a number of reasons for the left's failure to develop a significant media presence, including the fact that as all politics is rooted in class interest, the richest segments of the population are always better positioned to support political currents, visible leaders, media assets, and movements that mirror their policy preferences and do their bidding. However, there are also powerful cultural and historical factors multiplying the effects of sheer money.

As an anti-intellectual, can-do kind of country, American radicals have been notorious for their culturally-implanted impatience, which explains some of their voluntarism and the propensity to see the struggle against capitalism chiefly as a series of pushbacks against urgent separate symptoms, without ever concentrating forces to eliminate the roots of the malignancy itself. This approach has consumed (and continues to consume) a great deal of grassroots activism, with most radicals often acting like a fire brigade perennially rushing out to put out the latest fires set up by the arsonist in chief, the capitalist system lodged at the very core of American society.

 This poisoned dynamic has distracted the left and created something of a self-perpetuating circle of inefficiency and defeat in political contests with the established order. Indeed the left—ridiculously undermanned and underfunded to begin with—has often acted like a general always ready to march his army into battle without first developing the tactical and strategic weapons necessary to fight and win such a war.  But when we talk about war with the criminal and essentially illegitimate corporate status quo what kind of weapons are we talking about? Not guns, for sure, certainly not at this point when the public consciousness remains badly confused and leaderless, with most disaffected folks coopted by the faux left, particularly the Democrats and their satellites, and the faux right (Trump being the current demagogic incarnation of the phenomenon.). Guns, of course can never be ruled out a priori in a revolutionary process, as they always come into play when the ruling orders jump to defend their interests by drowning the revolutionaries in their own blood. History shows two irrefutable things: One, the "Left" is born out of the accumulated crimes and abuses of the Right. Thus, the Right, the established order, is always the progenitor of the Left. If they look upon the Left as a curse and lethal threat, that's too bad, they created it. Two, in almost all cases recorded by history, it was the established order's heavy "pre-emptive" repression which unleashed the generalized bloodshed, and the social violence that followed.

FINISH READING INTRODUCTION—GO TO PAGE 2


Fight the propaganda battle and win it!
THE FOLLOWING SELECTIONS ARE ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDED

“Fake News”: The Trojan Horse for Silencing Alternative News and Reestablishing Corporate News Dominance

 

WaPo’s editor Marty Baron: Shamelessly pushing toxic sludge to suit the deep state, but he’s one of the country’s media stars.

WASHINGTON POST DISGRACEFULLY PROMOTES A MCCARTHYITE BLACKLIST FROM A NEW, HIDDEN, AND VERY SHADY GROUP
Herbert Schiller: The Packaged Consciousness

     


Literature in a Locked Down Land

Literature in a Locked Down Land

  By William T. Hathaway Working class literature is alive and well and living in prison. It is "well" not in the sense of being ...
Greanville's Tweetios #97

Greanville’s Tweetios #97

P. Greanville Loose change knocking around in my top file cabinet.  Shared not out of vanity but in the hope it may provide more useful ...
JPMorgan Chase on Capitol Hill

JPMorgan Chase on Capitol Hill

by Stephen Lendman On June 13, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified before the Senate Banking Committee. He discussed his firm's recent trading loss and ...
Scoundrel Media Support for Obama

Scoundrel Media Support for Obama

by Stephen Lendman Months before November's election, New York Times editors made their choice: Obama in 2012. Expect an official endorsement to follow. Editorial support ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom Hypocrisy

Presidential Medal of Freedom Hypocrisy

by Stephen LendmanShimon Peres On July 6, 1945, Harry Truman authorized awarding the Medal of Freedom "to any person....who, or on after December 7, 1941, ...
Beware the Corporate Media: Midwife of Imperial Assaults

Beware the Corporate Media: Midwife of Imperial Assaults

by Patrice Greanville , The Greanville Post The corporate media write lies on the American public's consciousness with impunity, as if it were a blank ...

Pages: 1 2

3 comments

Avatar photo
Garland Nixon January 4, 2023 - 1:24 pm

Thank you for posting my youtube video

Reply
Avatar photo
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas January 5, 2023 - 1:01 pm

We are honored to have you among our senior contributing authors, Garland. Consider TGP one of your editorial homes.

P. Greanville
Editor

Reply
Avatar photo
ZENON September 23, 2023 - 11:48 am

LA FALTA DE DISPONIBILIDAD DEL TRADUCTOR NO PERMITE VEER LOS IDEOS. EL ESPAÑOL NO ESTA DISPONIBLE.

Reply

Leave a Comment

* By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website.

The Greanville Post