Here's the article: https://dallasexpress.com/crime/uncovering-militants-motives-anarchist-propaganda-linked-to-fort-worth-ice-ambush/
lol, propaganda like "fascism is bad".
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A fediverse post by Abolisyonista ( @[email protected] ) saying "Anarchist attacked ICE in Texas and the mainstream media is citing passages from the anarchist library and all the passages are based??? https://dallasexpress.com/crime/uncovering-militants-motives-anarchist-propaganda-linked-to-fort-worth-ice-ambush/ " It has a picture of the "know the work rules" meme/comic, it shows a woman with ginger/orange hair holding a telephone saying "Hello, based department?!" with a concerned look on her face.
Only if propaganda is defined as “condensed soundbytes for getting across political ideas” in which case that’s awesome.
We need more propaganda to reach the masses. Get in their heads that their own interests and wellbeing is more important than billionaires 😄
Propaganda in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It's just something trying to convince people of something. The content of the propaganda is what could be good or bad.
I don't see what I do as propaganda. I see what I do as counter-propaganda.
I have no need to "convice" people of anything at all... as the reaction to Israel's genocidal actions prove, the working class is fully capable of thinking for itself once all the lies have been stripped away. That's what the working class needs help with.
Thank you! Very much hate the common understanding of it to always be bad nowadays.
It is a very interesting debate. Very heated on reddit. Like is there any definite line between propaganda and sharing info?
I'm on the side that most human-generated info is propaganda to a certain extent, but I'm probably overshooting. Science usually isn't. I think the reddit definition was pretty neat. Something along the lines of disseminating info to certain groups. Suuuper broad, but a bit more strict than my thoughtless version.
I think propaganda is more than just convincing people. Its also describes a way of acting and a relationship between the one(s) doing propaganda and the one(s) being (not) influenced/convinced by it.
From my anarchist perspective propaganda as a tool is not really desirable in achieving my vision of anarchism because instead of building trusting realtionships between equals, it kinda opens up a divide between the propagandists and the others without really enabling a dialogue or discussion. Of course in reality its not this much of a binary (and I can see others having a different understanding of the term propaganda), but I think it would be still preferable to choose ways of convincing others that actually build those relationships.
The term "propaganda" is quite nebulous. Anything with a political message can basically be described as propaganda... and yeah, I don't think trying to promote an idea in a catchy, snappy way is necessarily bad.