In the last edition of Salient there was a cartoon of a student, bound and blind-folded, being fed garbage labelled 'capitalist propaganda'. Thi: same Salient makes the worst capitalist propaganda I've ever encountered smell like roses by comparison. Every article contained emotive language, dubious hidden assumption, biassed arguments, and cant phrases like U.S. imperialist aggression'. In fact, Salient is trying to feed us garbage just as rotten as the stuff the 'capitalists' are supposedly ramming down our throats.

I'm not a rightist, a Nixon-lover or a brainwashed bourgeois. I just believe that propaganda proves nothing and convinces nobody. I think that dishonest arguments are bad no matter who uses them — 'capitalists' or 'socialists'. Down with all slogan-chanters and crap-gulpers, even the ones who write Salient!