Monday, March 29, 2010

Cosying up to Communism

I liked this little comment about the rabid Fox news network and it's pushing of the Obama=Socialism and Fox News=Freedom memes...
...Then there is Google's commendable withdrawal from the Chinese mainland because of censorship, which is certainly in keeping with Obama's stand on human rights in China. I mention this because while Rupert Murdoch's Fox News network in the US has been spewing out daily dose of mustard gas on the health bill, talking about freedom of choice and messy European socialism, another branch of Murdoch's unlovely empire – MySpace China – happily complies with the censorship of a socialist state.

Indeed, though it's a communist, not socialist state. Fox News's parent company is cosying up to the nasty authoritarian cousin of Socialism, Communism.

2 comments:

Divided By Zer0 said...

In what possible sense is China Communist?!

anarchist said...

It's Communist in the sense that the stat has ultimate control in the name of the 'people' still there is not much about this form of communism that Marx would recognise...