[PEN-L:1943] A PC Treat!

[knoWWare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Walker)]

Do I have a treat for PEN-Lers! I have rummaged through my files and come up
with the venerable "PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY NATURE
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"

I will scan or type in the document and post it to PEN-L when I have the
time (I might have to type the whole thing in). The "Proposed resolution"
was allegedly submitted to the June 1969 convention of the Students for a
Democratic Society by the "Louis Lingg Memorial Chapter". An IWW printers
bug may be a more precise clue as to the identity of the authors.

Just this short teaser for now (please imagine this with the full ironic
force of a '60s wobbly imitating a capped and little red book waving student
maoist):

>Concern with correct thinking and proper expression of that thought is a
>hallmark of the true revolutionary. Our vehicle for thought and
>communication is language; to be concrete, it is the English language. Now
>it has never occurred to us that this language is by its very nature
>counterrevolutionary and that truly correct revolutionary thought in
English >is therefore impossible...




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Tom Walker
knoWWare Communications
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