• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Lol I’m sure Prolewiki is an unbiased source that the majority of people would agree with on the definitions of words. /s

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      8 months ago

      Where did he say that the majority of people agree with this definition?

      Well, the majority of workers in the US probably did, until the labor movements were crushed in the 60s and 70s

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        8 months ago

        If the majority of people don’t agree on the proposed meaning of a word then that isn’t what the words mean. In other words, it is wrong.

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          It’s a materialist/Marxist definition, hence the

          Because Marxists are like seen-this-one

          https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism

          All successful labor movements and mass organizations in the past have included teaching others how things work, handing out pamphlets, etc.

          And so we can choose to act towards restoring definitions to words with important meanings, so that we become capable of discussing the things they signify again.

          If we don’t use words as they mean, but instead use unorthodox terminology, then we allow the significance of such words to be lost, with no standardized alternatives in common use - i.e., no alternatives that are any more clear than the original word.

          There is a war on language. It’s primarily a subset of the class war. We can surrender, or fight what is probably the simplest fight of our life: We can use words as they were meant to be used.

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            8 months ago

            Yeah, I’m glad you’re slowly starting to comprehend the conversation. I’m informing you that making up definitions for words is wrong and is the source of confusion when you try and fail to converse with others.