Its definitely not a risk free strategy of the bourgeoise, but for the most part unless everything goes extremely to shit the bourgeoise can just rob socialist revolutionary messaging of all its power by putting it on this mythological marketplace of ideas and drowning it in shallow "debunking" by the "free media" and other mediums like academia.
Because the resources of the average bourgeoise will never be less than that of the working class and revolutionaries this strategy works very well while being hard to detect because of all the obfuscating indoctrination like the whole idea of the free press vs state press, or using the dismantling of historical socialist projects as proof of the failure of socialism, as if dismantling a person limb from limb would mean proving all of their ideas and goals a failure too.
Its definitely not a risk free strategy of the bourgeoise, but for the most part unless everything goes extremely to shit the bourgeoise can just rob socialist revolutionary messaging of all its power by putting it on this mythological marketplace of ideas and drowning it in shallow "debunking" by the "free media" and other mediums like academia.
Because the resources of the average bourgeoise will never be less than that of the working class and revolutionaries this strategy works very well while being hard to detect because of all the obfuscating indoctrination like the whole idea of the free press vs state press, or using the dismantling of historical socialist projects as proof of the failure of socialism, as if dismantling a person limb from limb would mean proving all of their ideas and goals a failure too.
Citations Needed’s most recent episode on #deleteuber being co-opted for their “anti-racism” campaign is extremely relevant to this.