They got so close then pivoted to free press as a deal breaker.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      “Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.

      ---Lenin

    • KasDapital [any]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 years ago

      Yeah and I don't know how to respond to it. I'm not the most well read ML, so it's been just a lot of "what does the term authoritarian even mean" and then pointing out how that's not a useful term because it's so subjective. I decided to just go with primary sources are easier to come by now.