21.03.2008, 22:54
Zitat:A few months ago I visited a communist bookstore in Cambridge and found myself leafing through a little pamphlet entitled “The True Story of the Maoist Revolution in Tibet.” It turned out to be a compendium of four or five hastily written propaganda pieces for The Revolutionary Worker newspaper which painted pre-communist Tibet as “hell on earth” and celebrated the glorious years between the smashed Tibetan uprising of 1959 and the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 as a golden age of enlightened liberation.
I must admit that I love propaganda of all kinds, from the strikingly moving Soviet agitprop films of Sergei Eisenstein to the relentlessly over the top anti-Semitism of Fritz Hippler, and even the slickly engaging corporate propaganda of television commercials. Of course, I don’t take the arguments of any propaganda seriously, but I do think that there exists a great beauty in the way that propaganda merges twisted logic with a thoroughgoing belief in its own truth.
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