08-28-2024, 08:03 PM
(08-28-2024, 06:55 PM)ArMaP Wrote:
That was more or less how the fascist regime in Portugal worked, from the common person everything was fine: there was no crime and all suicides were "accidents with a hunting gun".
The media only published good news about the country and only a few bad about other countries, they usually just ignored them. The state censorship took care of the rest.
It was also how Renaissance Spain worked as well. As long as the royals were fat and happy, the hell with the peasants. Even though that predates Trotsky (as mentioned above), what Trotsky brought to the table and makes him the issue was his political philosophy and writings brought this elitism thinking to the masses to follow and while before it was just a blindly followed "us vs them". I mean it still is, but there are more followers of "them" that should have stayed "us".
