Blog 5 Marx and Chomsky

Chomsky's propaganda model in relation to Marx's manifesto both show the power of money and how it has an ability to force us to conform and change. In Chomsky's model, we see how the corporations and rich have the ability to control our media, just as Marx points out how capitalism and such control the market and the workers. These concepts both have the same ideals in which we lack control over our lives because we are driven to conform. Marx states that the the bourgeois and the proletariat are forced to conform into one group, just as Chomsky views media as a way to force conform. Since both are controlled by the rich, the public then looses control over what it believes and becomes. With media, we believe what we see especially in the news, and as Chomsky pointed out the news is usually augmented in a way to cause us to sympathize with the controllers of our media which is the rich which drives us to hold the same values and ideals as they do. These ideals begin to translate over into the ideals of economy and thus falls into the idea of Marx's and control. Once we begin to fall into the the same ideals as the higher class, we begin to stop making decisions that are best for us, but best for them, and thus become controlled. Marx sees how the joining of the bourgeois and the proletariat will lead to the change in economic decision making because the proletariat will be making their decisions based on the good of the bourgeois, but this is only due to the fact that they are forced to join.