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Ben Scheele of Minnesota

Friday, March 10, 2006

Shop, Should, Show

Well, since I missed yesterday, here are a couple entries.

Shop:
Bourgeois parliament is merely a talking shop.

That one didn't have much, but it's pretty funny. I've noticed a few major themes in this dictionary, with many examples having to do with military or agricultural situations, or else concerned with ideology, government, work-ethic, and revolutions. Not all of this is propaganda, but it definitely shows a fixation on certain topics.

Should:
The group leader announced that we should begin to work soon;
We should learn from the poor and lower-middle peasants;
We worked hard so that we should fulfil our task ahead of time.

Oh, and here's are some examples for show:
The deceptions of modern revisionism have been shown up by its own deeds;
Show concern for one's comrades;
We must not show mercy to the enemy.

Wow. I'm not sure exactly what this revisionism that they were talking about is, but it probably refers to any attempt to point out flaws in the logic or beliefs of the "Party" and Communist doctrine in general. These examples are such thinly veiled propaganda that it really astounds me. The people who wrote this dictionary either did so in a state of fear or of denial. Pretty sad.

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