Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Words for Politics and Economics

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

> 
> I had a problem asking for the translations of political parties
> because those words mean something different than what they originally
> did and what they did 100, 50, and even 10 years ago.  The words
> themselves show this in their construction.  

We are lojbanists, not interpreters of history.  That means we must, 
in effect, 'translate' the names of the parties even if we believe the names 
do not reflect today's reality.  For example, the most often-used lujvo 
for communism has been {guntrusi'o} based on the idea (vaguely) of having 
communes ruled by workers (and peasants).  Few people today would 
claim that that ever was the case.  But you would never get agreement 
on what communism really represented.  Communism is an ideology 
justifying:

1) rule-by-state-biurocrats?
2) rule-by-party-clique-using-the-trappings-of-ideological-communism?
3) rule-by-well-meaning-ideologues-with-no-control-over-party-functionaries?
4) rule-by-workers-corrupted-by-power?
5) etc

The same would apply to socialsm, conservatives etc.

We are stuck with what the 'owners' of the label want it to mean.

mu'o mi'e .totus.

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