Chomsky and Marx

Chomsky’s propaganda model and Marx’s economic model are quite similar. They both describe a hierarchy of classes, from poor to rich, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Every occupation, in both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, has been influenced to preserve themselves as a profitable business and disregard the public interest and welfare. Propaganda, like Marx’s recursive and self absorbing class structure, also reiterates on itself, with comments, responses, and voiced opposition. A feedback loop is created where each extreme of the class spectrum draws more people with middle class, colored-collar occupations.

Most importantly, the propaganda model follows Marx’s ideological laws whereby the means of production are reproduced. The establishment is set in place and creates propaganda from a variety of media, ensuring the establishment will always be there. The process repeats: establishment, propaganda, a continued establishment more propaganda. The class structure continues as well. The upper class maintains their distance from the proletariat through propaganda and other ideological tools, ensuring the exclusive yet continued existence of the upper class.