Marx and Engels did a whole lot of political correcting. See "Critique of the Gotha Programme" , et al.
Putrid is in the ear of the beholder.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 21, 2013, at 8:28 PM, c b wrote:
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> The terms have not been hijacked by the right. They are used by the right
>> to cast aspersions on some left wing statement of a politically correct (
>> not "right") position.
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> To everyone, including cb, the phrase "politically correct" evokes the
> putrid aroma of the phrase "Party Line." But what stinks in our ears is
> music to cb's, so here's some music (to the tune of Darling Clementine):
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> In old Moscow, in the Kremlin,
> In the fall of thirty-nine.
> Sat a Russian and a Prussian,
> Writing out the Party Line.
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> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
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> Leon Trotzky was a Nazi,
> We all knew it for a fact.
> Pravda said it, we all read it,
> Before the Stalin-Hitler pact.
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> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
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> Once a Nazi would be shotzi,
> That was then the Party Line.
> Now a Nazi's hotsi-totsi,
> Trotsky's laying British mines.
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> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine
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> Now the Nazis, without Trotzkys,
> Stand within the Party Line.
> All the Russians love the Prussians,
> Volga boatmen sail the Rhine.
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> O my darling, O my darling, O my darling Party Line
> No I never will forsake you, for I love this life of mine.
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> Shane Mage
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> "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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