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What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just wanted to prove that political diversity ain't dead. Remember, don't downvote for disagreements.

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[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Propaganda functions with a pre-supposition of the initial dominance of the material over the immaterial. People are functionally motivated to accept specific ideological and social viewpoints where the material state encouraging that comes first. I think this article makes an interesting case for why this general concept is non-Marxist: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/