Words of Wonder

Who knows how long this will last
Now we've come so far so fast
But somewhere back there in the dust
That same small town in each of us
--Don Henley

A tactic for facilitating change away from capitalism and toward socialism, particularly it would seem by Fabian gradualists, is creating chaos with the language. Take old, valued words, change their meaning, but keep the old valued words.

Some of the words that have undergone metamorphosis include:

liberal
free markets
capitalism
democracy
justice
inflation
deflation

The idea is to get people to gradually accept new concepts while not alarming them. Rather than saying, 'Down with capitalism!' just say that we need 'managed capitalism' to keep people on board.

Creating positive substitute symbols...I think that's one term for it.