• Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    It’s a materialist/Marxist definition, hence the

    Because Marxists are like seen-this-one

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism

    All successful labor movements and mass organizations in the past have included teaching others how things work, handing out pamphlets, etc.

    And so we can choose to act towards restoring definitions to words with important meanings, so that we become capable of discussing the things they signify again.

    If we don’t use words as they mean, but instead use unorthodox terminology, then we allow the significance of such words to be lost, with no standardized alternatives in common use - i.e., no alternatives that are any more clear than the original word.

    There is a war on language. It’s primarily a subset of the class war. We can surrender, or fight what is probably the simplest fight of our life: We can use words as they were meant to be used.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I’m glad you’re slowly starting to comprehend the conversation. I’m informing you that making up definitions for words is wrong and is the source of confusion when you try and fail to converse with others.