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...LANGUAGE OF COMMUNISM (149 pp.) - Harry Hodgkinson - Pitman...
...Language of Communism, Author Harry Hodgkinson, sometime intelligence officer in the British Royal Navy, sets out a few trail-markers through the petrifying forest of bolshevized Marxist linguistics. Hodgkinson modestly calls his book a glossary; to compile it, he has evidently tramped the great lava beds of Soviet journalism, literature, ukases, encyclopedias, decrees and polemics, and toiled in the lead mines of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin classics. The result is not a formal study, but a beginner's handbook of what might be called progressive pidgin, published in England under the honest title of Doubletalk...
Peering through the bars at Author Hodgkinson's caged semantic monsters, the reader will find such strange animals as the Marxist breed of equality (ravenstvo). "'By equality Marxism means, not equalization of individual requirements and individual life, but the abolition of classes,' said Stalin to the 17th Party Congress (1934)." And so on for a page of valuable documentation of George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings...
...full-dress study of the language of Communism has yet to be written, and would probably represent an intellectual feat more difficult than Bishop Colenso's codification of Zulu grammar or the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Meanwhile. Author Hodgkinson has made a commendable beginning...
...automatic system. But none has been as successful, chiefly because they have not been able to get enough merchandise at all times, nor at low enough prices. And it takes shrewd buying by Filene's to keep from getting stuck with "bargains." Said Vice President Harold D. Hodgkinson: "The customers really decide what are bargains. You just have to be right oftener than you're wrong...