Lenin was ahead of his time. Even now, if you go around saying what Lenin said, you’d be called a conspiracy theorist.
Lenin is so profound precisely because he managed to identify the invariants of capitalism.
The west has lots its way, but I think that people are starting to rediscover the wisdoms of yore now.
Marx did mention about the large-scale deception by the Capitalist class with his claim about class consciousness and the awareness of the workers of their oppression. That is the reason why many media outlet could afford to spread information for free. Now the media companies also gather user's data without the consent of the users as payment for "free stuff".
The amount of lies people blindly believe about any AES Asian country is insane. Even Cuba and Venezuela don't get that kind of treatment.
"Both western and eastern media are bad" has "neither Washington nor Moscow/Beijing" vibes. Which basically translate to meaning "stop calling out my intellectual dishonestly and let me support white fascists in peace."
For those interested in an analysis and takedown of the trope: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/the-fallacy-of-denouncing-both-sides-of-the-us-china-conflict/
