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Article: Enter Eurospeak: an insidious replacement for the Marxist Newspeak.
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- National Review
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- June 20, 2005
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SOCIAL reality is malleable. What it is depends on how it is perceived; and how it is perceived depends on how it is described. Hence language is an important instrument in modern politics, and many of the political conflicts of our time are conflicts over words. This truth was abundantly illustrated by the history of Communism and by the triumph of Communist Newspeak, not merely in the Soviet Empire and China, but in university departments all over Europe and America. Open almost any British sociology textbook from the Seventies and you will read that human society divides into "classes," that the "proletariat" is engaged in a continuing "struggle" with the ...