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As Weatherman progress through proximal action coordinate locations along +t-axis, given that they are able to move through their first three proposed actions, they will eventually reach their first goal. Hence, strategic actions and utopian goals share the same temporal axis. However, unlike the proposed strategic actions, utopian goals are positioned at such a remote location along the timeline that it is questionable as to whether they will be realized within the lifespan of anyone currently part of the ingroup. Utopian goals are inherently teleological in nature because the ingroup must constantly appeal to an idealized future state of harmony. Along the +t-axis goal categories are

arranged sequentially, starting from the most proximal goal of Destroying US

Imperialism, through successive stages of revolutionary successes, to the much- anticipated end of completely restructuring the global economic paradigm into a

Classless World (Figure 7.18). Thus, the sequence involved in this conceptual ordering is from the most proximal goal to the temporal deictic centre moving distally to the ultimate solution. As for the utopian goal categories, the contradiction being worked out

is between preserving a class society and Achieving a Classless World.Weatherman

understand preserving a class society to consist of keeping in place the current

geopolitical status-quo, where ‘oppression, war, genocide, and the complete evisceration

of everyone’ are the expected results. However, in order to Achieve a Classless World,

Weatherman outline a few goals that must be fulfilled along the way. Starting from

Destroy US Imperialism as the most proximal categorical relation and moving forward toward Weatherman’s preferred state of institutional relations, one can view the

sequential ordering of proposed goals.

The +t-axis is filled with utopian goals to be reached after the coming American

‘revolution’ has already, somehow, been won. The goals move in sequential order from the presumed end of ‘revolutionary struggle’ in the US starting with the temporal

location Destroy US Imperialism. After destroying the imperial system, Weatherman

intend to Win State Power. This means that Weatherman and other American

communists will have to seize power until genuine democratic elections can be held. In Marxist jargon, this stage of revolution is known as the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’.

Although not clearly spelled out, Winning State Power occurs when US military forces

are disbanded due to being overextended and overwhelmed by revolutionaries globally.

Next, in a successful future, Weatherman will Control and Use Wealth for Third World

redistribution purposes. This category comes third in sequential order of proposed goals, but the reader actually encounters it first when reading the manifesto. This utopian goal is perhaps mentioned first (and later reiterated) because it provides the primary

justification for Weatherman to act against the US state. In essence, they are saying: When we become rulers of the US, we will be more benevolent and just than the current administration perpetuating imperialism. After an international redistribution of wealth and a renegotiation of trade deals, the ingroup are projected to reach their desired

destination of Achieving a Classless World. From Weatherman’s perspective, the

revolution will only truly triumph if complete economic equality between all world peoples can be reached.

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Imperialism Winning State _Power

Control & Use Wealth of Empire

Control & Use Wealth for Oppressed Achievement of Classless World When Rev. Triumphs in US This Process Goal of Rev. Struggle

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In this chapter my intention has been to demonstrate how frame space is built during conceptualisation and becomes a stabilized structure stored in LTM. To demonstrate the building of frame space, I modelled the accumulation of sixteen mental spaces as they are processed and stored in LTM structure (see Section 7.1). As mental spaces unfold, frame space is filled in with contents that come to occupy stable locations within a LTM coordinate system. As mental spaces incrementally build up into frame space, the incoming discourse contents of group identities, evaluations, mindsets/events, actions and goals become stabilised in relatively fixed coordinate locations for categorization purposes. For this reason, in the latter half of this chapter, I examined frame space as an inter-connected totality (see Section 7.2). If the coordinate structure of frame space is accepted by the reader, it may contribute to stabilizing a shared political worldview within political groups. In the introduction of the Weatherman manifesto, these semantic category members and their spatial-oppositional and temporal-sequential arrangements build up into a detailed category structure. A stabilized frame space, as provided by a collectively agreed upon manifesto text, supplies ingroup members with an accessible coordinate system for embracing shared political identities, evaluations, past mindsets, strategic actions and utopian goals. In Chapter 8, I reflect on the merits and limitations of both propositional and imagistic approaches for reconstructing mental models. Learning from these previous approaches to modelling conceptual structure, I have begun to formalize a scenes-and-episodes approach for conceptual space. By providing a

framework for discourse analysis that reflects an embodied form of cognition, I intend to contribute to the beginnings of a comparative studies programme for reconstructing mental models in manifesto texts. I end discussing how political parties utilize language to construct mobilizing mental models and appeal to conceptually entrenched

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