The Dictionary Question Anonymous 04-05-25 15:22:47 No. 24234
>Literally every dictionaries you can find on google are bourgeois with "indoctrinate" and "propagate" being treated unequally and "consumerist" being listed as "derogatory" and stuff I want to know what English dictionaries could be used ideally for a person learning Marxist critiques? Is there any good dictionary at all?
Anonymous 04-05-25 17:02:56 No. 24236
1. Normal dictionaries are meant to document their common usage, not impose a "correct" definition, because that's not how language works.
2.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/propaganda seems pretty accurate, so wikitionary. just take the "dated" tag with a grain of salt.
Anonymous 04-05-25 17:15:07 No. 24238
>>24234 >and "consumerist" being listed as "derogatory" It is thobeit.
Anonymous 05-05-25 03:29:46 No. 24241
>>24236>>24238 1. The bourgeois interpretation of language is being listed as common usage regardless the fact. For example: the term "bourgeoisie" being defined firstly "the middle class" then the common defination "in a Marxist context" in Oxford Dictionary. Such distinction of "Marxist context" should not exist since the Marxist and liberal contexts are parallel instead of one is greater than another. 2. Bourgeois dictionaries are being used to legitimize the distatorship of the bourgeoisie. A classic example is oligarch vs entrepreneur in OED where the role of the former in state institutions is present with subjective interpretation that attempted to label them as being mostly related to former Societ Union. (not true) On the other hand, the latter is a bourgeois newspeak of the former and are being used daily to mitigate the political meaning of the former, as well as manipulation of the image of the subject to make them compatible with bourgeois morals (taking the risks) thus legitimizing their rule through moral superiority. Both mitigation and manipulation are propaganda. Such acts need be countered by dictionaries that point out the political meaning of the latter from a Marxist critique.
Anonymous 05-05-25 04:32:14 No. 24242
>>24241 >Such distinction of "Marxist context" should not exist since the Marxist and liberal contexts are parallel instead of one is greater than another. Valid, I think it'd be nice to see that formatted like a table instead.
>A classic example is oligarch vs entrepreneur in OED where the role of the former in state institutions is present with subjective interpretation that attempted to label them as being mostly related to former Societ Union. (not true) I knew Oxford was trashy but Holy Shit.