Concept
Propaganda
Overview
material created to influence or persuade
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The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful. Equality of opportunity among opinions is essential if there is to be real freedom of thought; and equality of opportunity among opinions can only be secured by elaborate laws directed to that end, which there is no…
Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda
The chapter “FREE THOUGHT AND OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA” is titled for Propaganda; states what Propaganda is.
On one hand, thinking deprived of its normal course takes refuge in academic specialism, comparable in its way to what is called scholasticism. On the other hand, the physical agencies of publicity which exist in such abundance are utilized in ways which constitute a large part of the present meaning of publicity: advertising, propaganda, invasion of private life, the “featuring” of passing incidents in a way which…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
States what Propaganda is; names Propaganda.
The contention that capitalist propaganda is what prevents the adoption of Communism by wage-earners is only very partially true. Capitalist propaganda has never been able to prevent the Irish from voting against the English, though it has been applied to this object with great vigour.
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
States what Propaganda is; names Propaganda twice.
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Authoritarianism.