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The Power of Grammar and the Grammar of Power

This chapter looks into the political dimension of the “discussion about language.” It mentions Nikolai Marr's predominant theory in linguistics. It also compares the two major ideological campaigns in the late-Stalinism era in biology and linguistics, which indicates that realism and revolutionary romanticism remained a principal balancing element in the politico-ideological project of Stalinism. The chapter highlights Joseph Stalin's urgent political signals that speak out against the Marrist concept of “linguistic revolution.” It analyzes the arguments surrounding Marr in both the early 1930s and the early 1950s that revolved around Stalin's “Marxism.” It also discusses Stalin's “new theory of language” that was proclaimed at the cusp of the 1930s as a true embodiment of Marxism in linguistics.