The B u l l e t
Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 246
August 9, 2009


Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney


In The German Ideology, Marx said the following about the media: “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.â€