Green and communist propaganda: comparison
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Let me now try to identify some basic common features of the propagandistic algorithms of both ideologies; it won’t be too hard:
They try to convey the message that the opposition doesn’t exist
If the opposition exists, it is composed of unsuccessful or dead bodies who have been defeated decades ago
The members of the opposition are painted as being controlled by others, usually by demonized sources of power, with hints of corruption; a connection - even indirect connection - with these ultimate “sources of evil” is presented as a complete proof of wrongness
Opposition gets badges that are meant to be derogatory - capitalist, Zionist, deniers, renegades, contrarians, reactionary, burgeoisie, oil-funded etc.
Opposition is presented as being against all the people - and all the people should agree and do agree with that; statements that everyone agrees and everyone keeps on supporting the official position are repeated all the time
The opposition members are criticized for their very existence and for the tiniest deviations from the official ideology, to assure everyone else that one simply can’t join them if he wants to survive
Opposition is claimed to misinterpret words and facts even though it is pretty obvious that it is the official party who is doing that
The opposing individuals are deconstructed one by one by carefully crafted ad hominem attacks
The propaganda openly states that a debate or a dialogue itself is unacceptable and no details of the opponents’ opinions are ever analyzed
Whenever it’s possible, the opponents must be fired or otherwise harassed; a penetrating analysis of skeptics’ personal lives and attempts to find anything questionable - even if it is completely unrelated to the dispute - is a standard tool of the propaganda
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/06/green-and-communist-propaganda.html
Communism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes monopolies, depressions, and exploitation of workers by capitalists. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the benefit of the working class and the Socialist State. Capitalists and landowners must be exterminated for the benefit of the proletariat.
Nazism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes racial impurity, national decline, and exploitation of German workers by Jewish capitalists. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the good of the Aryan master race and the National Socialist State. Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs must be exterminated for the benefit of the German Nation.
Environmentalism: The pursuit of individual self-interest causes global warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion. It must be replaced by self-sacrifice for the good of other species—our “fellow biota”—and for the good of the planet, under the auspices of international treaties and a nascent Global Socialist State: the UN. Most of the human race must be exterminated for the benefit of exploited species and the planet. (This is what the environmentalist “extremists” already openly say. The “moderates” merely want to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent and thereby reduce the American standard of living to that of a third world country, with a third world country’s infant mortality and life expectancy.)