Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about passive voice use by fascists when he talked about the language of apparent clarity and the language of real clarity. The language of apparent clarity uses the passive voice to disguise the perpetrators of violence, as in “the undesirable elements were eliminated” versus “the secret police shot the protesters.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about passive voice use by fascists when he talked about the language of apparent clarity and the language of real clarity. The language of apparent clarity uses the passive voice to disguise the perpetrators of violence, as in “the undesirable elements were eliminated” versus “the secret police shot the protesters.”