#5. “Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.” -Leon Trotsky
Trotsky was the originator of the political correctness debate which we are still all currently suffering under. Trotsky and other cultural Marxists wished to control the people by controlling their language. His “Struggle for Cultured Speech” talk is chilling in how meaningful it is today for the same social justice warriors who campaign against anyone who uses words that they deem “abusive.”
Trotsky said, To preserve the greatness of the language, all faulty words and expressions must be weeded out of daily speech. Speech is also in need of hygiene. And the working class needs a healthy language not less but rather more than the other classes: for the first time in history it begins to think independently about nature, about life, and its foundations—and to do the thinking it needs the instrument of a clear incisive language.”
Sounds similar to Stalin’s thought police.
