Kong Qiu, known in the West as Confucius (from Kong Fuzi, “Master Kong”), is the first individual whose birthday we know:  September 28, 551.  Happy birthday to Qiu. One of the Master’s core doctrines was “the rectification of names.”  As he explained to a disciple, “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.  If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on successfully.” The left has long recognized this.  For generations, with great ingenuity and diligence, the cadres have worked at manipulating language.  They had little choice.  Marx’s prophesy did not come to pass:  the workers failed to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie.  Instead, whenever they could, the ingrates chose to join the ranks of the middle class.  So it was up to leftists, mostly disaffected members of the bourgeoisie, to seize...(Read Full Article)