Seguimiento y control de las emisiones

Mental space sixteen:

For socialism to be defined in national terms <CONTAINER> within <CONTAINER> so extreme and historical

<SCALE> an oppressor <ENABLEMENT> nation as this is only imperialist national chauvinism on the part of

<SURFACE/PART-WHOLE> the “movement”.

At the conclusion of the manifesto’s introduction, Weatherman attempt to convince the reader to define ‘socialism’ broadly to include all world peoples. With a double

CONTAINER (‘in national terms’ and ‘within…oppressor nation’), Weatherman reinforce

their scenic construal of university students living in the US, while invoking the most distal spatial and axiological elements of the outgroup with ‘oppressor nation’. As for the contemporary New Left ‘movement’, from which Weatherman has emerged, they do not receive as harsh an evaluative condemnation as other outgroup identities (‘petty’ or ‘reactionary’). However, the evaluation given of ‘imperialist national chauvinism’ does share affinities with the ‘privileged interests’ evaluation given to some Americans earlier in mental space 13. Weatherman reason that to define socialism in such an exclusive manner, without taking into consideration a history of extreme oppression, earns the New Left movement the negative judgement of being chauvinistic. Therefore, ‘chauvinism’ and ‘privilege’ has not only influenced the American people in general, but also those involved in the movement for social change as well. With the addition of mental space 16, Weatherman add their last identity prototype category. Placement of the ‘movement’ just on the other side of the medial identity relations is reinforced by the harsh evaluation they receive from the ingroup collective as being chauvinistic.

In summary, this final mental space is dedicated to adding both new identity

(‘movement’) and evaluative (‘chauvinism’) prototype categories. This leaves the reader with seven identity and six evaluative regions along the spatial-oppositional axes. While categories along the +t-axis go unmentioned in mental space 16, the most proximal mindset on the -t-axis (‘socialism’) becomes more clearly delineated. As for the temporal-sequential axis the first section ends where the reader has encountered eight mindset, four action and five goal prototypes.

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Forces

Military Forces of US, Forces

Revolutionary

Imperialist National Chauvinism The ‘Movement’ Revolution Triumphs Classless World Destruction of US Imperialism Class Society Oppression War Genocide We Our Privileged Interest Working People of the US

Working

Winning State Power, Control & Use Wealth Most Oppressed People, 3d World

Enslaved

Oppressed

Reactionary

Oppressor, So Rich, Monster

People of the US, Vast Majority, Masses

France, Czechoslovakia

Petty

People of the Whole World (2x) World, Everyone

Dictators, Lackeys, Other Empires Nation, The US (2x), The Empire

[American Goods & Services]

Peoples of Asia, Africa & L. America, Lin Piao US Imperialism

Revolutionary Struggle Soviet Imperialism

Israeli Imperialism NLS,

Peoples War _{Workers Struggle}

World Communism Socialism

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Building on the deictic mental space analysis in Chapter 6, I have modelled how the accumulation of mental spaces 1-16 build up into a more complete conceptual structure in frame space. As the reader processes these mental spaces and is about to move into the next section of the manifesto, s/he has built up a comprehensive geometric projection of a geopolitical worldview. Observing the accumulation of mental spaces, I have shown how discourse contents are positioned and construed in a repetitive fashion. Considering how multiple mental spaces in STM incrementally accumulate into a more detailed deictic frame space in LTM I have observed how:

 in/outgroup identities are located at opposing ends of the socio-spatial axis and

repeatedly construed as moving toward one another;

 in/outgroup evaluations are intimately connected to political identities being co-

contained in oppositional space;

 in/outgroup ideological mindsets often share a COUNTERFORCE tension along the -

t-axis, while some move from past to present and others are projected into the future;

 in/outgroup identity and evaluative relations move along the +t-axis in tandem

into upcoming strategic outcomes and future goals;

 the outgroup CYCLE of ‘class society’-‘oppression’-‘war’-‘genocide’ represents

the counter-strategy status quo along the +t-axis that must be overcome if the ingroup collective is to move forward into their most immediately aspired to ideological mindset of ‘revolutionary struggle’.

The stability of frame space is dependent on the semi-fixed locations of prototype

categories being built as radial CENTRE-PERIPHERY structures over the course of reading

the opening section of the manifesto. I say ‘semi-fixed’ because the next section of the manifesto may introduce new identities, evaluations, mindsets, actions or goals not previously mentioned. The introduction of any new category along the three geometric axes does not completely rearrange all previously set categorical relations, but must be located within the greater category structure to receive a particular meaning. So when the reader comes to section two of the manifesto, this expansive coordinate system is

augmented by adding newly introduced contents upon the existing structure already

provided by the first section of the manifesto.32 The analyst can be confident when

determining the exact location of a newly introduced prototype category based on the deictic nature of conceptual space. By placing the ingroup at the deictic centre of LTM category structure, the analyst is able to determine the group’s ideological point of view. The repetitive construal of discourse contents in certain locations within mental space helps the analyst to determine the categorical relations being built in frame space.

32 For instance, later in the Weatherman manifesto, the strategy of ‘passing out literature’ at high schools is mentioned. In this case, the reader does not have to completely rearrange all the strategic actions present along the +t-axis, but instead searches for the exact location for this action to occur in relation to all the other categories already encountered. Considering the completed frame space of section one, this new category would likely be located somewhere between the action of determining one’s stance toward Third World peoples and the action of actively fighting against an imperial worldview.

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