POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THE PARTY LINE | 2010-09-12
Does anybody remember the term Party Line? It was invented and used exclusively and openly by the Communist Party for decades. A Croatian told me that the word for it in Communist Yugoslavia was "political rectitude," political correctness.
The Part Line on June 21, 1941 was militant neutrality between the Allies and the Axis. On June 22, 1941 the Party Line became militant anti-Axis. That was the day Germany invaded the USSR.
The Croatian did not realize until I explained it to him that political rectitude is political correctness. In English the term "rectitude" is too old fashioned for common use, but not in Croatian.
In Croatian, "rectitude" is relatively new. It is a Latin word. It was adopted very early in the Latin using West but later in the Slavic world. So we use it, and translate it from Russian, as "correctness."
English is as far as I know the only language which adopted the term "Party Line." The reason for this is obvious to us older folk. A party line meant a telephone line that several people used. You couldn't call while someone else on the party line was speaking, and it was famous for gossipers to listen in on.
Political Correctness was entirely a Marxist term because other religions have other words for the same thing, like "orthodoxy," but of course the term "orthodoxy" would be poison to a Marxist.
So they wrote each other about what is translated as "political correctness" or "political rectitude" which is translated into English from those letters dating back into the Stalin period as "political correctness." The interpretations are not fooled by the nature of that term, but respectable conservatives show the usual cowlike blank face when one points it out.
Liberals don't choose pet conservatives to point out that political correctness is the same thing as the Party Line, though every translator knows it. Party Line makes their direct association with Marxism too obvious.
Political Correctness is the Party Line. When Moscow represented the Party Line on Strategic Defense against Reagan, Teddy Kennedy committed treason so blatant it was actually reported after his death that he allied with Andropov to defeat Reagan on it.
It was a desperate and carefully forgotten campaign which united the entire left against what Kennedy called Star Wars. All the way from Peking to Saturday Night Line to Superman the Nuclear Freeze was a titanic campaign.
Jay Leno even talked about how the comedians had been mobilized in the solid leftist front. It is a secret kept only by conservatives who want liberal approval.
No translator is fooled. Jay Leno, no conservative himself, was not fooled.
No, one must have one's livelihood on the line to miss that obvious point