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Decoding Language, Ideology, and Militancy: A Conversation with Carl Eugene Straude on Multilingualism and Leftist Movements

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The Importance of Bureaucratic Language

Militant does not necessarily imply any relationship of authority over other people in your group. It just means you are militating for that group. An organizer has the implication of a bureaucratic function even in English because it implies that you were organizing people as if they are objects. And, you know, like, I think these things are subtle and to some degree, maybe they're not super important but there are times where I think they are. When I was going through these texts I actually found it very interesting to go back and rethink about these things and think about what it would mean to educate people, and to make some of these things strange again.

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