Blog 5 - Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx argues that the society is pretty much controlled by
one group that is dominating the other group. This splits
the economy in two categories, the bourgeoisie and the
proletariat. Similarly, Noam Chomsky makes the same argument
about the division of our society through the propanganda
model, where the limited ownership in media and government
controls the economy because they filter out what the public
receives in reportial informations about our nation and the
world. However, that is not the only similarity, another
important similarity is that Marx and Chomsky states the the
controlling force (bourgeoisie and corporations) do not have
the common people in mind, but rather of self- interest that
only benefits them! Yet another aspect that demonstrates the
common argument between the two authors is that the both
bourgeoisie and corporations owns most of what influences the
common people through their decisions and manipulations of the
properties, and media, respectively. Owership is not diverse!
Marx argues that this type of class system with mass
production has replaced connection with family ties and lost
all meaning to product building that gave a name to craftsmen.
Chomsky also argues the same idea that there's this mass
media that has lost much of its meaning in communicating to
the mass about the news through different channels by
filtering and manipulating the public's reactions and actions.
In all, Communist Manifesto and Propaganda Model tells the
same story of the unfortunate manipulation and forced-
direction of the common people under the few that controls the
direction!