ABSTRACT

The very national interest has been purified, distilled to its innocent 1920s form: the business of America is business and that's the premise of author conjecture about English after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). When the economic system was reaching the limit of its ability to improve material life for each successive generation, 1960s political movements came along to demand more equal shares in the distribution of goods and in political power. The reconstructive effort, including the political correctness campaign, seems to be over-determined in obvious and less obvious ways. There is the long decline of American capitalism since the postwar boom began to taper off at the end of the 1960s while European and East Asian economies rapidly expanded. The author’s conjecture is that with the fall of the Soviet Union the framework of old global politics collapses, and the durable structure of domestic ideology too.