In order to make our collective experiences meaningful for everyone, leftists have to unlearn their own inherited language, then critically reconstruct it before they try to assume the responsibility of explaining the world to everyone else. Leftists have to make it their highest priority to explain what binds all of us to injustice, oppression and slavery, before we start trying to subvert the status quo. Their unwillingness to explain what they understand to those who don't has been a big part of the problem. If you don't need to explain anything, then you haven't picked the right audience. To the extent that we're going to help people find their way through the desert wastes of our capitalist society, we have to give them the tools necessary for the journey.
Metaphors are a good place to start.
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