WikiLeaks: so much in the open
Looking over this latest batch of WikiLeaks, I'm struck by how few surprises there are, and by how much of importance goes on pretty much in the open. An attentive reader of the news with a decent knowledge of history basically knows most of this stuff already.
I don't mean this in the sense in which the bourgeois press is using it...
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Yes. And those for whom it _is_ a surprise do not overlap those who read or read about WikiLeaks. Leaks, as far as I know, have never made an significant shift in public opinion. They do not, that is, function as agitation, and they are not really needed for purposes of theory or propaganda.*
Carrol
*Perhaps I shouldn't assume that everyone knows the Kautsky/Lenin use of the term "propaganda." It refers to "internal" education. Agitation is outreach. Theory breaks new ground.