about their obsession with newspapers. Just look at the effectiveness of the war propaganda around you. That sort of power could be ours if you’d only subscribe to your local socialist newspaper, just think

The real value in the monopolization of media is rooted in the monopolization part. Ten different outlets all speaking the same synchronized talking points creates the illusion of consensus.

By contrast, a dozen independent Trotsky weeklies spitting whatever their acting editors feel is The Most Important Thing do not create any kind of uniform consensus even within the leftist community. You just get these bifrications and struggle sessions between the three guys who think Russia is based, the two guys who are on Team Ukraine, the eight other guys who think we should still be focusing on Climate Change, and the one guy who mostly just puts out reappropriated memes aimed at Joe Brandon.