A fascinating, if strangely perverse (to this member of the bourgeoisie anyway) discussion of how the international cousins of Nepali Maoists think about certain words and phrases: Some juicy samples: "The reason Black heterosexual wimmin cannot find Black men for stable monogamous relations is prison and differential health care that kills off Black men before wimmin and white men." "[Maoists ]introduced the world to the term "gender aristocracy" to include those people who may not even be bourgeoisie but who benefit from the current patriarchal setup in particular." "Tupac Shakur's music is mostly correct and talking about all wimmin as whores is something Marx and Engels did in more refined language than we should expect to hear in a song." Enjoy the rest at: -http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/cong/languagetheory2004.html (Found out through November 2004 issue of Harper's Magazine.) oohi ashu