Mass media, propaganda and capitalism

Historian and author Dr. Gerald Horne is right and deserves to be known and read by naming the things by their names as saying “  The crisis goes beyond just the media, Horne argued, saying it is a crisis of “the entire capital system” and is part of “the inevitable demise of capitalism.” In fact, if capitalism survived its periodic and cyclical crisis as depicted by Marx in his seminal work, the Capital, it is because of two determinant factors,(1) imperialism and colonialism in order to control and to steal the huge wealth of mineral resources outside EUROPE and North America, (2) the manipulation and the reap of the masses by political propaganda researched and as very well explained by these two authors, the Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernay in his seminal book published in 1928, “propaganda,” with this very telling subtitle, “how manipulating public opinion in democracy” and Serge Tchakotine, from Russian descent, in his voluminous book “the reap of the crowd by political propaganda”. In this time, the former colonizing peoples and regions all over the world, in particular in Africa, are realizing and are becoming aware that the main cause of their chronic under development is due to the plunder and the theft of their underground riches, the very precious mineral and agricultural wealth and by the way, the new generation in Africa is waking up, determined to accomplish a second struggle for independence as we have seen last year during the second summit Russia Africa at St Petersburg with the very historical speech of the Burkinabe young president Ibrahim Troaré calling the African people to take their destiny in their hands without waiting for former colonizers’s aid. When it comes to the manipulation of the masses by political propaganda, capitalism shouldn’t survive so long without manipulating the human psychology by the mass media of communications(MMC) which always were the monopole of under the control of big capital and financial corporations whose main objective consists of manipulating and influencing the choice of the voters called to vote in spite of themselves for the same ruling class and for its corrupt political establishment. The emergence of internet early XXI century giving place to diversification of sources of information and analysis, the monopole of political propaganda by the ruling class and the political establishment has been undermined, that is why the western governments in Europe and North America were eager since 20 years to restrict the so called free of speech, to control internet and to silence the dissident voices through legislations witnessed by the latest European legislation called Digital Acts Services(  DAS) promoted by the French commissioner André Breton.