Blason de la révolution (II)

Blazon of the revolution, by Jacques Leclerc The speeches made in 1962-1963 on behalf of the Communist Party of Indonesia by its Chairman D.N. Aidit are overlaid, in the context of an international communist movement in the process of open schism, with images and values which give the slogans which summarize it the multiple meaning of metaphors. Part II of this article (cf. the April 1978 number) develops two observations : 1. the refocussing of the revolutionary world and of « Marxist-Leninist » space on the « villageof the world », set forth by Aidit in 1963, is the mirror image of a proposal dating from 1928 and formulated at the 6th Congress of the Communist International. 2. The language becomes more and more closed, corresponding to the « village/prophetic » contamination of the linguistic behaviour models hitherto employee by Aidit. If one had to name these changes affecting the language of the Indonesian leader, one would be tempted to employ this formula : it is an attempt to conquer space from within

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