Blog 5 Wk_3_Visiting_Artist_Jesse_Drew

Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” is similar to Chomsky’s Propaganda Model in that they both believe an upper class is dominating the lower class through dominating conglomeration and misguided information. For instance, Marx believes that the upper echelons of society, the bourgeois, uses the façade of free trade, free business, and free buying power to control the money flow and slowly widen the distance between them and the proletariat so as that the lower people never have a chance to climb back up to a place of equality or even a place to pass them. Chomsky’s view is the same, but it just deals with the media falsely feeding the public skewed information in order to benefit themselves and numb the viewer into submission. It is just as Marx stated in that the bourgeois create a world which seeks to mirror or replicate itself, over and over again. The main theme of Marx and Chomsky is that the people up top that are controlling everything use a false image or ideal and ride that to profit on their own end, while negatively impacting those below them. This also relates to Killing Us Softly 3 in that advertising is used to create a false image of women that the general public actually believe, thus benefitting the people of high society and further burdening the people on the lower end of the spectrum.