Poor people dont have the right to know whats happening lmao.
WSJ is especially expensive in my country, but it's really informative about the economy
Don't worry, right-wing propaganda "news" sites like Breitbart and RT are always free (and conveniently show up on the first page of Google results).
Use the website archive.is to read anything. Just paste the link in there and go.
“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.
“The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.
“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.
—Lenin, Congress of the First Communist International
reminds me of a friend who was mad that, in venezuela, maduro has a weekly address that is televised nationwide to all citizens because he said it was dictatorial
Tbf the wall street journal is very much steeped in pro-capitalism and Neoliberalism. It's informative about the bourgeoisie perspective of how an economy works.
Facts, the pure-bourgeios perspective is something communists should look into and analyze, it can tell you a lot about how they view and react to events. Honestly, paying attention to corporations is like paying attention to countries at this point and just about as important.
Yeah but burgeouis perspective is still important. I mean, like, if the stock market crashes it might mean that working class is fucked etc.
The Financial Times actually is what people think the Wall Street Journal is.
It's been this way for most of the existence of newspapers. There was only a brief couple of years around the turn of the century that previously paid-for journalism was freely accessible.
