I’m writing my third book, decoding the language and tactics of the far left, based on my original deep dives into their content and culture.
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Of course, we need to define our terms. This book cannot exist without a section on the language games the left plays, particularly when it comes to capitalism.
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I’ll offer a short preview of the writing style I’m working on, so you can get a taste of it. My intention is to write this book as though it’s a dystopian fiction looking back on the Marxist revolution in America, but everything in it will be real.
If you control the language, you control the culture.
And everyone knew, to some degree or another, that the party was controlling the language.
They knew the party had changed definitions in the dictionary to make dissent from their system an offense against the collective.1
They knew the party controlled the media, and therefore controlled the narrative beamed into homes on the evening news or through the radio on the morning commute.2
They knew that when Elon Musk spent $44 billion to make X (then Twitter) a free speech platform, the party retaliated immediately to force him to conform.3
They knew the party controlled education, which gave them the minds of the young.4
But what was most brilliant about the party’s strategy was that they didn’t just take control of the English language.
They also created their own parallel language called Socialist, which only comrades knew and understood. You had to be in the club to know the rules of the club. To everyone outside of the club, their secret code sounded like English.
Same vocabulary. Different dictionary.
And almost every word in the language of Socialist led back to their main target: Capitalism.
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