Propaganda

Sometimes HyperTree feels pity on the rapacious capitalists who get so easily swayed by the hegemonistic right wing propaganda and end up with their uniformly hegemonistic and capitalistic views. The poor sods are reduced to rabble-rousing minions who follow the dictats of their leaders with nary an independent thought, much less with their hearts and feelings. Idol worshippers; they drool over their icons barely able to stop at mere admiration.

I was reminded of this sorry state of affairs in the capitalist camp when I was looking at a recent post at ICW; a website that does the good job of showing the evils of the imperialist Indian corporations which are out to entice honest-to-goodness Indians into the bourgeois dream of exploiting the poor and getting rich by unsustainable practices.
Now can you imagine what the capitalists would have done with an autograph of one of their leader capitalist-economists? They would have creamed their pants that is what. Contrast that with the restrained display of Brinda Karat’s autograph in the many compassionate-socialist blogs – [1][2]. Brinda Karat, for the swinish capitalist-chauvinists amongst my readers, is a prominent member of the CPI(M) politburo and is well-known for her efforts to stop the greedy capitalist-imperialists from hegemonistically increasing the capital of India.

Sometimes I get really angry at the way the right wing propaganda brainwashes the minions of the capitalists; this makes it that much more difficult for our brilliant leaders, like Ms. Karat, to show the capitalist minions the light. Truly, we in the compassionate socialist camp have been really lucky to have such maginficent leaders who use their superior intellect to look at complicated economic issues and lead the less gifted amongst us compassionate socialists telling us the righteous things to do.