|
|
Article: Political Correctness
- Article from:
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 Thomson Gale. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Political Correctness
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The term
political correctness
was first used in the innumerable and acrimonious discussions among Communist ideologues that took place, both in Russia and among members of Communist parties abroad, after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The term was used, without any irony, to judge the degree of compatibility of one
’
s ideas or political analyses with the official party line in Moscow. Because the Kremlin position kept twisting in response to nationalist and personal interests much more than to ideological consistency, staying politically correct required agile intellectual gymnastics.
After the demise of international Communism around 1990, ...