Its the quite ludicrous position of some crazed apologists for Marx's hateful bigotry that all his marginalia must be ignored. Only the major works used to judge the man. At the same time a small army of fellow Marxist apologists are frantically busy endlessly quoting from works like the 1844 manuscripts. The German ideology. The Grundrisse and cherrypicked letters, some unsent.
None of those works may be used for critique - only praise.
Doublethink is the act of simultaneously holding two contradictory beliefs and accepting both of them, a term coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It involves knowing something is false but believing it is true, deliberately lying while believing the lies, and even forgetting facts and the act of having forgotten them when necessary. This concept is central to the Party's control in 1984, as it allows for the simultaneous acceptance of contradictory ideas, such as "War is Peace" and "Freedom is Slavery".
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