Doris Lessing on political correctness

From Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer:

The phrase “political correctness” was born as Communism was collapsing. I do not think this was chance. I am not suggesting that the torch of Communism has been handed on to the political correctors. I am suggesting that habits of mind have been absorbed, often without knowing it. 

There is obviously something very attractive about telling other people what to do: I am putting it in this nursery way rather than in more intellectual langu...