Editing Enver Hoxha (section)

===Rejecting Western mass media culture===
Hoxha and his government were also hostile to [[Western world|Western]] [[popular culture]] as it was manifested in the [[mass media]], along with the [[consumerism]] and [[cultural liberalism]] which were associated with it. In a speech on the Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the PLA (PLA-CC) on 26 June 1973, Hoxha declared a definitive break with any such Western bourgeois influence and what he described as its "[[Social degeneration|degenerated]] bourgeois culture".<ref name="bon"/> In a speech in which he also criticised the "spread of certain vulgar, alien tastes in music and art", which ran "contrary to socialist ethics and the positive traditions of our people", including "degenerate importations such as long hair, extravagant dress, screaming jungle music, coarse language, shameless behaviour and so on",<ref name="bon"/> Hoxha declared:

{{blockquote|It is precisely this culture, coated with a glossy veneer, accompanied by sensational advertisement, handled in the most commercial way and back up and financed by the bourgeoisie, that inundates the cinema and television screens, magazines, newspapers and radio broadcasts, all the mass information and propaganda media. Its objective is to turn the ordinary man into a passive consumer of poisonous bourgeois ideas, and to make this consumption an addiction. Not only have we nothing to learn from this culture, no reason to impart it to our masses and youth, but we must reject it contemptuously and fight it with determination.<ref name="bon">{{harvnb|Bönker|2016|p=238}}.</ref>}}