Being financed by an entity does not mean you are a propaganda organization for them.

lol. Lmao. 10/10 opening sentence that reveals the depths of the poster’s ignorance and shitlib ideology, couldn’t think of a better sentence to convey “ignore everything else i say”

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

In case you wanna be a shitlib and cry about tankies, here’s einstein. Notice how he’s describing a society in which capitalism is mutually exclusive with actual democracy, and notice how he cites in specific the ownership of the press as a primary cause

He’s saying this shit when there were hundreds, thousands of media owners, sometimes with conflicting interests.

It’s now 2026 and private capital has continued to accumulate. Do you even have the first fucking clue who owns whatever news sources you hold up as “more objective” than Russian media? Lmao i fucking doubt it but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, there’s like 5 of them today

Idk, it’s kinda always going to be propaganda when there is financing involved, no? Not all propaganda is bad, it’s the interests behind it and how that financing is structured, like if it is a grassroots donation based media outlet (Democracy Now!). Correct me if I’m oversimplifying, but in the ideal sense, a PSA by the state for folks to wash their hands with soap is “good propaganda.” When the state is not a tool of the proletariat, when the state tells its citizens to be wary of their own vaccines (that had to pass their own regulations), or when the state spreads the notion that another state is committing genocide (to distract away from the genocides that our state commits/is implicit in), then it’s the bad kind of propaganda. In that sense, I think it would be good to have more anticapitalist propaganda! More art, music, documentaries, etc. Call it PSA if that sounds better lol