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don't use words people don't understand, use the words they do understand
not to be patronizing but if i think someone cant consistently understand words with more than 7 letters i totally shift my way of talking and even thinking when im around them.
You're discounting like 40% of the population, and most of those are ignorant not stupid, blame public education and anti-intellectualism in imperialists nations
Literally said not to be patronizing, you should always act as the romans when in rome, you gotta blend in. I'm also a total determinist, i dont really blame anyone for anything.
read the prior comment closer.. what are you disagreeing with?
There are lots of words with fewer than 7 letters that you don't know and ones with more than 7 that they do, there's no need to be such a snob about it. Also illiteracy isn't just something people choose for themselves in most cases.
ok and?
most marxist analysis uses pretty big words, somewhat unnecessarily. like working class or just workers when the academic term would be proletariat. dumbing down the language can make you fly under the radar very effectively
I find that a lot of "Marxist analysis" is people using the big words as a smoke screen to mask a lack of deep understanding.
sometimes people have big words and understanding. they just don't know another way to talk.
there is 2 ways of education an individual:
educated them to educate others
educate them to exclude others
because of careerism, the second is incentivized.
ah we are agreeing?
i believe so, like here im not afraid to use big complicated words, like i remember not knowing what a mountebank is in the communist manifesto, googling it and thinking, why the fuck would you translate that as a word?