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Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of WORDS chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of PHRASES tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
His comments on the mechanical repetition of well-worn phrases as a substitute for critical thought-processes can still be applied to the majority of leftist and ultra-leftist writers and groups today.
