The Neo-Marxist theorist, Antonio Gramsci in his cultural hegemony theory appealed to every communist to manufacture consent in their favour by capturing ideas influencing institutions like the media, government, colleges, schools, or think tanks. He said that the capitalist class is ruling by making their aims dominant and so the communists need to do so. The theory has largely been followed by the communist around the world. They are constantly capturing the key institution of a state and dictating the terms accordingly.
Trust on China
Recently Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong released a video related to his visit to the headquarters of one of India’s leading English newspapers The Hindu. Tweeting about the visit he said, “visited the headquarter of The Hindu. Face-to-face communication leads to mutual understanding and trust. Welcome you all to explore and know about a real, objective, and 3-dimensional China”.
Visited the headquarters of @the_hindu. Face-to-face communication leads to mutual understanding and trust. Welcome you all to explore and know more about a real, objective and 3-dimensional China. pic.twitter.com/MpJ3hWLYF3
— Embassy of The People's Republic of China in India (@China_Amb_India) June 1, 2022
It is pertinent to understand that, on one hand, China continues to aggress along the border and on the other meeting with India’s leading news daily. Further, the confusing appeal to “build mutual understanding and trust” does not give a clear idea of their intention. Either they want to build such a relationship with the whole of Bharat or only with the newspaper. Certainly, even if they want to build such relations with the newspaper, it is the de-jure fact that The Hindu will always ‘advocate for the interest of India’.
The manufacturing consent
The communist rule around the world runs on the pattern of a propaganda war. They try to influence the ideas of other countries through corrupt media, organizations, governments, or civil society. With the symbiosis relationship between ideas and money, they continue to enlarge their interest.
There have been multiple instances in the world where China has tried to bribe officials and other media organizations to create an environment in their favour. The same trick was followed throughout the Cold War where US & Russian (formerly USSR) led groups would try to influence the countries through money, intelligence & other ideological bending.
The Mitrokhin Archive II was written by Vasili Mitrokhin, the former KGB defector and its co-author declared India as a spymaster’s Disneyland. It called India “the model of KGB infiltration of a Third World government”. The book claimed that a suitcase of cash was sent to the Communist Party of India to enlarge the ideological base in India. Many infiltrating & bribing stories like a total of 10.6 million roubles were spent to undermine Indira Gandhi’s political opponents. VK Menon’s election campaigns were funded by KGB, and during 1975 the KGB planted 5510 articles in Indian newspapers. This trick to running the government through a proxy is very old and the media plays a very big role in this.
If we closely understand the post-independence development of our economy & society, it will give clear glimpses of the practical realization of the same theory that the book and Gramsci explain.
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Every key institution of Indian democracy had been captured by the leftist group. May it be polity, governance, society, or economy, everything was running around the communist theory. Through the institutionalized process, they systematically indoctrinated our minds and manufactured consent in their favour. It was the devastating theory of communism that held the state indebted till the 1990s and did not let the economy flourish. We have liberated ourselves from the communist economic model by adopting the policy of liberalization, privatization, and globalization. But the key institutions like the media, colleges, bureaucracy, NGOs, or think tanks, which meld the discourse of a country, are still in the captivity of communism.
In a democratic country like India, he is free to go where he wants & news agencies are also free to meet whomever they want. But the general population of the country needs to be wary & vigilant about the development after such meetings because history suggests that we have always been betrayed by our own people.
