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📣 sebastianconcpt

Are ideologues speaking a different language inside their native one?


When a progressive speaks of progress the word is not objective as a conservative would think but politically loaded as in progress towards change to implement socialist policies. When she speaks of change she means revolution. When she speaks of "some progress" she means we have gained some power but we want you to give us more. When she speaks of social-justice she means socialist controlled collectivist justice. When she speaks of revolution she means anti-capitalist subversion. Is it a neolingua/newspeak already being used among us?

  👤 dpbriggs Accepted Answer ✓
Which progressive?

You have made a strawman of progressives, and are criticizing that. I don't know any personally that speak as you've described.

I can see the rhetoric angle, as political entities abuse language to make ideas easier to transmit / accept. This isn't exclusive to socialists and communists.

I also encourage you to think carefully on what socialism actually is. There's a tendency to label anything socialism because soviet connotations would kill support for the idea.