Dear Editors,
What would Marx have thought of television? If he had been alive in our age of mass televised media, I think the Communist Manifesto would have included a few more pages to say the least. Reading his theories now, it does appear that he was right in saying that capitalism is vastly unstable, and will be overthrown due to a revolutionary event bought on by capitalism’s inability to create a stable and just society.

When the television was invented I would guess it was seen as a great source of education and information, bringing knowledge and wisdom to the masses. But the ruling class knows too well that if true knowledge and wisdom was given to the masses then revolution would most likely occur. These days it is only too clear that the ruling class saw the television as it does everything else: something it could exploit and draw profit from.