"Why can't these leftist intellectuals learn to write decently? These long, complex sentences, filled with impossible coinages like "resingularization"! How can they ever hope to get a strong political movement going when only their fellow professors (and not many of them, even) can understand what the hey they are saying? And once and for all, let's give up the attempt to make "praxis" an English word. Nobody but graduate students has ever encountered it, or knows what it means."
Amen! Writing decently, writing so as to be understood, would be a great and persusasive argument for their belief in democracy and human intelligence.
Perhaps the problem is that intellectuals by and large are trained in academia and this training (and the academic plums it can deliver) is more important than their professed dedication to freedom.
Joanna