Problem with the Marxist theory of history: there is a web of connections between social and economic life, but it really can’t say which is the cause and which is the effect. And ordinary discourse generates out of its own resources the concepts that Newspeak forbids.” The New Left encapsulates reality in “Newspeak.” As he notes, “Ordinary language warms and soens Newspeak freezes and hardens. Newspeak asserts power over reality instead. Thesis: The purpose of language, at least on one level, is to describe reality. Socialist utopias are violent “because it takes infinite force to make people to the physically impossible.” Marx’s contradiction: the future state is one where there is a full legal order present with none of the structure of the law. Social Justice is not equality before the law but the rearrangement of social structures. This is understandable since few are likely to get excited on the metaphysical reification of labour. How many “Starbucks Socialists” really understand the Base and Superstructure paradigm? The New Left focuses more on Liberation and Social Justice than on surplus value. The New Left is different in that the traditional Marxist categories are harder to apply.
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