Conclusion
Contrasting Short Glossaries of Philosophy of
Language
My final thesis suggests that the Marxist concepts
elaborated by the tradition and developed above
form a system. By way of conclusion, I am therefore
going to try to assemble the main ones here.
Obviously, it is not only Marxist concepts that form
a system. The leitmotiv of this book has been that
the class enemy is a past master in the linguistic class
struggle. This is apparent in the linguistic doxaof
which the dominant philosophy of language is the
noble version. And it takes the form of a number
of linguistic notions that are directly applicable
politically. They warrant a book in their own right.
Here, I shall only tackle three of them, in the light of
works by authors who do not (always) identify with
Marxism, but whose reflections are valuable in that
they capture the political common sense in linguistic
matters in the current conjuncture.
- Brief glossary of Marxist philosophy of
language
Assemblage
This term was coined by Deleuze and Guattari in A
Thousand Plateaus. Assemblages have two aspects –
a machinic, desiring aspect (machinic assemblages
