I do think the behavior of the system definitely suggests central management instead of any, like, uncoordinated class interest behavior. But at the end of the day, if you fix the structural problems, it doesn't even matter.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The central management is the government which largely acts as the management committee to resolve disputes between large capitalists.

[–] dx1@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not quite what I mean. The way that control is orchestrated between the whole apparatus for the moves of the machine to function synchronously (media support of wars, wars happening in a way that benefits the largest companies, etc.).

For example, the way that even CNN seems to just be reading from a script re: manufacturing consent for the Palestinian genocide. It's beyond something like "they'll lose their White House press credentials if they don't play nice".

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

For sure, there is a lot of coordination happening. We can see some of that revealed with the usaid debacle where it turned out that a lot of "independent" media was actually state funded.