Yes, this is just the Marxist understanding of how propaganda actually works. Material conditions influence ideology. These people willingly take in the propaganda because it justifies their dominant position as privileged on a global scale and it allows them to keep profiting off the oppression of the Third world.
Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.
Also check out this one for another angle into the same phenomenon.
Alright, I'll bite. What is and isn't propaganda about the DPRK?
Because, from what I can tell, you can't both be a backwater and a hellhole while having the capability to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Some of their technology is astonishingly advanced and shouldn't be possible in a country where millions are starving and everyone is uneducated.
You can't just pick one guy and have them be a nuclear scientist through sheer willpower and propaganda. You need to have a robust education system that happens to produce those kinds of people.
For what it's worth, that's been true for the US, the Soviet Union, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, and Iran. They had inequality, sure, but a good chunk of each population was very educated and very advanced.
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Yes, this is just the Marxist understanding of how propaganda actually works. Material conditions influence ideology. These people willingly take in the propaganda because it justifies their dominant position as privileged on a global scale and it allows them to keep profiting off the oppression of the Third world.
A quote from this excellent article:
Also check out this one for another angle into the same phenomenon.
Alright, I'll bite. What is and isn't propaganda about the DPRK?
Because, from what I can tell, you can't both be a backwater and a hellhole while having the capability to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Some of their technology is astonishingly advanced and shouldn't be possible in a country where millions are starving and everyone is uneducated.
You can't just pick one guy and have them be a nuclear scientist through sheer willpower and propaganda. You need to have a robust education system that happens to produce those kinds of people.
For what it's worth, that's been true for the US, the Soviet Union, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, and Iran. They had inequality, sure, but a good chunk of each population was very educated and very advanced.
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