Anarchism / Marxism debates

Martin Schiller mart555 at inow.com
Mon Aug 16 11:45:41 PDT 1999


Charles Brown said on 8/16/99 10:38 AM


>Chomsky is considered an expert in the science of language - i.e., a
>professor of linguistics, and a partisan, linguistic theoretician. The
>notion of "doublespeak" is, of course, taken from George Orwell's
>anti-utopian science fiction, futuristic novel 1984. If there is a
>totalitarian or "absolutist" state-society within which operates a "Ministry
>of Truth," it is the United States -- with its educational institutions --
>and Chomsky is its "Obrian."

Orwell was "anti-utopian"? Or is that an example of double-speaK?

Martin



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