Hah, that has been one of my favourites for a few months now. Such an original idea, coupled with truly excellent cinematography.
Keynes, that is exactly my system but with a few of the practical concerns ironed out...
Except yours retains a place for private capital and then censors private pubiclations...so if I am reading you right you want to have the workers' press and Lenin's censored press operate alongside each other...
Not exactly. Your proposal was for the press to be funded by subscribers paying for it. My proposal is that the government would pay the publishing cost and pay for journalists of any paper that can demonstrate a readership. Consider for example if someone published a very popular news pamphlet under my system which appeals to the members of one of the less affluent industries, such as the glass industries in Silesia. So long as that news pamphlet has subscribers, it would recieve funding from the government in proportion to its readership, not their financial means. So despite the fact that the glass industries of Silesia don't have as much funding as for instance the steel industries of Cologne, the workers of both industries would be equally entitled to having their concerns addressed by publishers and would be equally well informed about the events of the day. The knowledge that the press provides is too important to be limited based on financial means. That is why we must make the free press free!
That is so amazing! Very creative!I know this isn't exactly on topic but I just saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
Thought I'd share with my Comrades.
The Anarchists are nothing but angry rabble-rousers
And the Marxist-Leninists are nothing but generalizing propagandists.
How ironic that the communists are using the tactic of their fascist enemy: "The bigger the lie, the more often repeated, the sooner it becomes truth."
Man, that book sucked. I barely got through 10 pages.