Freedom of the Press - Freedom of Business

Freedom of the Press - Freedom of Business

by Panfletos Subversivos
June 12, 2007

A government bill that increases the control of the State over Venezuelan radio and television broadcasts has caused indignation among the defenders of the "freedom of the press (and of business)", in another episode in the inter-bourgeois conflict that has transferred the monopoly of information on the part of a business over to a State monopoly...

This has obviously generated irritation among those who have economic interests in the business of the information, disguising this interest as "freedom of speech". That freedom of speech that is so enclosed, that freedom of speech that wants to sell us all the democratic rights and freedoms, is an ideological mechanism of domination that perpetuate a dominant culture, be it managed by a ruler, a bureaucrat or a businessman.

Proletarians: we won't allow ourselves to be deceived; businesses or governments will always oblige us to spit more blood each time and produce value or die of exhaustion, and their communications media is nothing other than a machine for the reproduction of this reality, be it private or public, it is an instrument of coercion, of violence and of despotism and it constitutes an essential weapon of democracy, that is to say of bourgeois domination.