Bob Jones: Language abuse

Ever since socialist ideology was buried in the 1980s by the near universal adoption of market economies, culminating at the decade’s end in the Soviet Union’s collapse, embittered left ideologues have resorted to language reinvention to mask their personal inadequacies as ongoing collective aspirations.

Initially, this followed a disastrous television interview with Dame Cath Tizard following her appointment as Governor General. “I remain a proud socialist”, she grandly told the interviewer, who then asked what she meant by socialism.