#1: On "Social Justice."

This is an instructive case study in Orwellian newspeak. There really is no justification for the existence of this term, it is nothing more than an effort to avoid the negative charge attached to the word "socialist." "Social justice" is nothing other than "socialist justice" and, whether one is "for it" or "agin it", it is important to fight the good fight of calling things what they are. And, by the way, while Orwell drew attention to the political practice, it actually evolved out of the socialist rumblings in Europe from the 1850s on, to be perfected and put into practice by Lenin from the time he took over the peasants' revolution of 1917. There are fascinating and instructive passages in Dostoevsky's The Possessed (sometimes The Devils) in which the techniques of taking over a state by revolution are described in chilling detail, and that's around 1870. The political transformation of language is included among those techniques.