page_title: Capitalist propaganda
section_title: Portray non-capitalist countries negatively
hierarchical_section_title: Capitalist propaganda / Techniques / Portray non-capitalist countries negatively
caption_attribution_description: US Army machine gunner holds of hordes of Reds and Wobblies
context_page_description: Capitalist propaganda is promotion of capitalism, often via mass media, education, or other institutions, primarily by the ruling private and political elite. Capitalist propaganda is commonly deployed in capitalist countries to maintain the cultural hegemony of capitalism, by positioning it as the supreme and only valid system, eliminating opposing and dissenting views, and portraying non-capitalist perspectives and countries as comparatively incompetent and inferior, thus reinforcing capitalism as the dominant ideology. Capitalist propaganda may have lasting psychological effects that remain in a population even if the official government of the people is no longer capitalist, which can produce political instability and rebellion. The term capitalist propaganda has been used since at least the early 20th century to describe how propaganda is used by the capitalist class to indoctrinate workers to act against their own interests.
caption: Anti-communist poster (1919) by William Allen Rogers in the New York Herald, depicting a U.S. Army soldier pointing a machine gun at a crowd of "reds" and "wobblies" holding signs in support of communism and a "Soviet Gov't for U.S."
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