Euphemism Employed by Westerners

[seventeethdecember2016]

List all the different Euphemisms you've ever heard regarding Socialism, Communism, etc.

Planned economy into 'Command economy.'

Workers' Democracy into 'Totalitarian Dictatorship.'

State Capitalism into 'Communism.'

[bcbm]

why?

[Ocean Seal]

Work for everyone == mass slavery
Kulaks == Heroic peasants
Mao == Obama

[Tim Cornelis]

Euphemism. You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

[cynicles]

Idiots = Capitalists

*Oh you meant western anti-communist, my mistake.

[Zav]

Euphemism. You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
The Inigo Montoya meme. You keep using it, but it doesn't apply here. The OP is asking for what the West in general thinks our vocabulary is euphemistic for. For instance when we say 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' many people think we mean 'totalitarian state', or when we say 'collectivization' they think we mean 'nationalization'.

[Hit The North]

This thread should be in chit chat.

[Tim Cornelis]

The Inigo Montoya meme. You keep using it, but it doesn't apply here. The OP is asking for what the West in general thinks our vocabulary is euphemistic for. For instance when we say 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' many people think we mean 'totalitarian state', or when we say 'collectivization' they think we mean 'nationalization'.

No he's not, he is asking for "euphemisms employed by Westerners." And he gives a few examples: instead of planned economy, they turn it into command economy.

A euphemism would be:

"We are going to have to let you go," instead of "you're fired." or:

"peasants were strongly invited to join the rural cooperative" instead of "forced collectivisation."


List all the different Euphemisms you've ever heard regarding Socialism, Communism, etc.

Planned economy into 'Command economy.'

Workers' Democracy into 'Totalitarian Dictatorship.'

State Capitalism into 'Communism.'

Those are all dysphemism.

[bcbm]

moved to chit chat

[seventeethdecember2016]

Those are all dysphemism.
You must have misunderstood. I intended them to be euphemism not dysphemism.
Your point also makes little sense, as a dysphemism is converse to euphemism.

Even if a valid point was made, it was trivial to begin with.


Euphemism. You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
I've only used it once on this forum. That occurrence was right here on this thread, so I don't know what you meant by this point.

[Nox]

Stalinism into "Communism"
Maoism into "Communism"
Titoism into "Communism"
Authoritarianism into "Communism"
Communism into "Ultra-leftism"

[Hit The North]

moved to chit chat :thumbup1:

[Agent Ducky]

You must have misunderstood. I intended them to be euphemism not dysphemism.
Your point also makes little sense, as a dysphemism is converse to euphemism.

Even if a valid point was made, it was trivial to begin with.


I've only used it once on this forum. That occurrence was right here on this thread, so I don't know what you meant by this point.

What...? He was quoting a movie.


You keep using that word. I do not think you know what it means.

And he's right that these are dyphemism and not euphemism. Because "command" sounds worse than "planned"; "dictatorship" sounds worse than "democracy".
Euphemism is like "passed away" instead of "died"
Dyphemism is like "bit the dust" instead of "died"
What you're doing here is more analogous to the latter comparison.

[Revolution starts with U]

Stalinism into "Communism"
Maoism into "Communism"
Titoism into "Communism"
Authoritarianism into "Communism"
Communism into "Ultra-leftism"

Haha you win :wub: