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What’s the lore behind Maoist Standard English? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I legit thought it was theory but google just drowned me in a deluge of memes

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Read Settlers

[+] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not to split hairs but I don’t think there’s any “amerikkka” in settlers. Sakai uses “Amerika” and yea I believe he borrowed it from other groups. My memory is a little fuzzy on the specifics, another comrade may know better, but I think it came from some black or afro nationalist orgs or other things like that. It definitely predates settlers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amerika

isn't that just german?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

yeah and i believe the point is/was to highlight and draw a link to fascism with it. I remember reading a thing a couple years ago about some of the groups that began using it that influenced sakai's usage of it but tbh post-covid it's hard for me to remember random shit like that anymore lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Assata has it I think

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Amerika was fist used in the 1960s, to liken the United States to Nazi Germany, as it's the German spelling of America.

Amerikkka was an evolution of that popularised by music, magazines and books as far as I know. I know NWA and Ice Cube used it a lot in their music and promotional materials.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

To their white surprise

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Lots of Mao's writing is very direct and clarifying while simultaneously having a particular feel/cadence to it through virtue of translation. Couple that with the insular dogmatism of many white "maoists" in the US, and you get a special flavor of English.