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