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Are you aware that that site is considered and judged by Media Bias as... .
...we rate the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) as strongly Left Biased based on promoting anti-capitalist, socialist viewpoints. We also rate them as Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to the use of some sources that promote conspiracy theories.
I am not going to pay much heed to what Media Bias says, because Media Bias itself is biased. It is a pro-capitalist website and judges other websites accordingly.
Of course a socialist website is biased. No genuine socialist would ever deny that he or she is biased. Every genuine socialist and every genuine socialist website is biased - in favour of the working class.
It just so happens that the wsws is the only website in the world that fits this description (anti-capitalist down the line). Media Bias accurately describes the wsws as "promoting anti-capitalist viewpoints". The rest of its description reflects the bias of Media Bias itself: hostility to any conceptual or political framework that opposes capitalism.
We live in class society where every standpoint, every theoretical/philosophical framework is biased, because it reflects the interest of a class, or of a particular social layer within that class.
In class society, you can say immediately that anyone who claims to be "unbiased", "neutral", "non-partisan" is a charlatan.
The truth is partisan: you can only get to the truth if you are in a fight to create positive change.
Example: medical science progressed not because scientists were "neutral" about disease and were only researching it for academic interest, but because they were committed to finding a cure for disease.
Example: what would you conclude about a historian who claimed to have a "non-biased neutral position" about Hitler, and wrote a biography of Hitler from that standpoint? You would hopefully conclude that the historian in question is hiding his true partisanship: ie his sympathy for the Nazis.
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