Wake up, SA belongs to all of us
By Opinion
by Alex Tabisher
My key-word for this week is reification. In its simplest (Marxist) form it referred to social relations that were perceived as inherent attributes of people involved in them.
One shudders at the political damage that can be caused and inflicted by such thinking as ideology. It basically claims that a falsehood can be repeated until it sounds, and is accepted, as a truth.
After Marx, semiologists played around with the notion of reification as a linguistic notion to the extent that George Orwell evolved âdouble-speakâ as a narratological device. Hitler wrote in