the use and abuse of language

I guess most here are aware of the following quotes and the general ideas associated with them:

Obviously one of the main ways that the propertied classes maintain the political order that guarantees them their privileges and power is by twisting and distorting the language until it suits their purposes. In some ways I wonder if it isn't counter-productive at times to go out and try to talk to people about libertarian socialism with the waters of language as muddied as they are. I wonder whether a good strategy wouldn't be to take stock of all the ideologically loaded words that get thrown around and create a sort of updated Devil's Dictionary kind of thing. I think something like that could be a pretty powerful tool. The powers that control and bore us have a monopoly on the means of violence but they sure as fuck don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I kinda think it would be cool to do it as a collective project as well, partly because I'm too lazy to do it on my own but partly because it would be cool to talk about all the different ways that language gets distorted.

Here are a couple of examples of the kind of thing I have in mind anyway.

National Security: The security of the power, wealth and status of the dominant class who own and control the nation. Perpetual insecurity and fear, particularly of the unknown, encouraged by the powers that control and bore us, in order to discourage political dissent and encourage conformity and obedience.

Freedom: The ability of 10% of the planet's population to steal 85% of the planet's wealth from the other 90%. The ability of the owners of the means of production to exploit workers by paying them less in wages than the value of the product of their labour. The ability of the rich to do whatever the fuck they feel like regardless of the consequences for anyone else.

Democracy: A system of government that claims to guarantee the freedom of the individual by allowing voters to choose between right wing and far right-wing factions of the one pro-corporate party at the ballot box every few years. A system of government that claims to guarantee the freedom of the individual through the principle of equality before the law while neglecting to mention that the laws are written by and for the rich.

Communist: Anyone who asks the wrong sort of questions.

Patriotism: The idea that the greatness of the nation derives from the inability of the individuals who comprise it to think for themselves.

Free Market: The principle that the ownership of private property is the basis of human freedom, and thus that only those who possess private property are human.

Counter-insurgency: State terrorism.

Faith: Blind obedience.

Civilisation: The barbarity we perpetuate.

Choice: The ability to determine which commodities you throw into the bottomless pit of your alienation.

These are just a few. Obviously there are tonnes of words out there that the spin doctors use to keep everyone blind to the fact that the world is run in the name of the privileges of a minority and that the majority of us are just wage-slaves.

Don't know if this grabs anyone or not but it's just a thought.