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Interesting, the link to language is rather brilliant. Question for you comrade, what thoughts do you have on Lenin' mention of a single language and Stalin' piece on linguistics/language? I'll link it below.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950/jun/20.htm
My thoughts are still forming, what immediately comes to mind is the use of pidgin english in colonial china and the forceful push of what is now modern-day french over other languages in the region. Occitan I believe and perhaps Basque (not sure about this one at all) I have a source here but I cannot make any claims about its quality.
https://quebeccultureblog.com/2015/03/23/a-brief-history-of-how-frances-former-languages-and-how-they-helped-to-shape-our-french-in-canada-217/
Another thought which came to mind (seeing 'quebec' in the url of the previous link) is Cree which is to my knowledge the indigenous language in kanada with the largest geographical spread, I believe because it was used for communication between indigenous groups (who each had their own languages and cultures).
Apologies for the rambling, I meant to make a coherent point but instead I wandered off...
That was really interesting to read, thanks for sharing that! I still have to process some of it but some of the things Stalin said is pretty interesting. Going to what Lenin said. He sort of reminded me of like, why English is widely used in the "business" world? Especially due to american imperialism/british colonialism. Mainly this part form Lenin reminded me of that.
Going to Stalin, I really like Stalin talking about base and superstructure. I think near the end this was extremely interesting. Mainly these two parts
In the first paragraph it sort of reminds me of like, when countries force others to adopt a single language of theirs? Like in that other article you linked that talked about frances former languages.
But with the talk of like, one language being "victorious" over the "defeat" of the other. Mainly with one language trying to dominate others. It reminds me of a lot of force assimilation and genocide that happens. Like with what goes in the United States, like in the past with it's boarding schools with forbidding indigenous people to speak their own language, but only English.
Meanwhile for the other half of that. It's interesting to think of an single international language arising one day that "of course, will be neither German, nor Russian, nor English, but a new language that has absorbed the best elements of the national and zonal languages."
Also Stalin reply to E. Krasheninnikova, reminds me a bit of that one saying, how language shapes how you think. And besides that, from earlier on this, these two parts were interesting as well
And that part sort of reminds me of like. How some of the sciences were quick to use like computer metaphors for the human experience. Sorry hopefully I didn't take too much space with the quotes. Anyways that was really interesting to read from Stalin.