What bullshit did they publish about him?
Every Labour leader in my lifetime has been crucified in the media, because the media is over 90% right wing and has vested interests in the continuation of capitalist excess because their owners are capitalists.
We have one newspaper that is owned by the readership, I own a small percentage of that newspaper, the Morning Star.
You only have to look at the political discourse dominated by the proliferation of right wing think tanks based around Tufton Street to see an unalloyed campaign against anything that has even a whiff of Socialism. Corbyn being a Socialist was the antithesis to everything these mysteriously owned think tanks idealise about.
I could go into the continuous racist slurs, I could go into the caricatures, I could go on about magic money trees and I could go on and on about him being Anti British, anti Nato, anti Western but none of that is really of importance compared to the fact he had some ideas on how to curb capitalist excess and that scared the living daylights out of the capitalist class. They try everything they can to discredit Labour from the ridiculous anti semitic conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism to the new identity politics moniker. which are all designed to dilute the message that Socialism might be a good choice for the working class to make, so ridicule , lambast, lampoon and whatever other propaganda tool they can find they will use to discredit Socialism. It become commonplace to label Corbyn as a Marxist, Mcdonell was a Marxist, spouted as though the political philiosophy of a dead man was an indicator that these people wanted to ruin your lives and turn the UK in to the Soviet Union. The lines are Socialism and Democracy are incompatible such is the desperation of the capitalist class to hang on to their vestiges of power, wealth and influence. These myths go unchallenged because the media is RW dominated and you get fed a daily diet of how wonderful capitalism is. The very same capitalism that has had a footballer campaign to feed kids whilst the capitalist class enjoyed free meals on the back of the Chancellor's largesse.
The past two decades have witnessed a barrage of propaganda against Marxism and its revolutionary heritage. Since the collapse of Stalinism – not socialism, but a monstrously deformed caricature of Marxism - from one front to another the mainstream media, universities, professors and historians have gone on the offensive to discredit Marxism. Lets examine here the most common myths about Marxism and socialism.
The Stalinist regimes in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and elsewhere are the most commonly used resource for attacking Marxism. Many of the misconceptions about Marxism can be linked quite clearly with the establishment of the first workers’ government in the world with a clear revolutionary programme – that of the Russian Bolsheviks. The October Revolution of 1917 is described merely as a ’coup’ and no expense is spared to equate Marxism with the crimes of Stalin.It cannot be denied that these Stalinist regimes had an enormous bureaucratic caste at the top of society and lacked any basic democratic rights. Such historical examples are used to “prove” that socialism and democracy are completely incompatible. Study of the Russian Revolution, however, and it reveals a flourishing of society after the end of the revolution: the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion; introduction of free universal healthcare and education; a booming economy and giant leaps forward in science and culture.
Many of the gains of the Revolution were rolled back under Stalin; but this process of degeneration into a totalitarian regime was not the inevitable result of Marxism – as the capitalist class and their mouthpieces would have us believe – but the result of attempting to build a socialist society in an isolated and economically backward country. We should also take a look at what democracy looks like under capitalism. Looking around the world today, where - despite crisis in the economy and austerity across the globe – the rich get richer, it is clear that society and the economy are run in the interests of a tiny minority: the bankers, industrialists, financiers – i.e. the capitalist class. This “1%”, by owning and controlling the main levers in the economy, are the only people who really get any say regarding the major decisions in society. For the vast overwhelming majority of society – the 99% - there is little say in how society runs. In this sense, capitalism can be described as a dictatorship of capital. This does not deny the democratic form which governments take, with elected parliaments, freedom of speech, etc., but expresses the fact that the state in those countries exists to perpetuate a particular set of property and power relations. Quite simply, the state in capitalist society exists to maintain capitalism and the privileges of the capitalist class as I wrote before backed by the RW media in this country.
