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Marxism as a speech community

May 27, 2015
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I think this can certainly be a useful way of thinking about Marxism if we begin with a particular understanding of language.

Marxist linguist Valentin Volosinov argued that the sign is “an arena of class struggle.” I think what he meant by this is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial: when there are political controversies about language, those co…

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