Word: anarchist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political, but Kozol has no distinct political or theoretical position. He leans to the left, but never identifies his ideological beliefs: it is impossible to tell whether deep down inside, he is a closet social democrat, Maoist, or, what seems to fit best with his style of wholesale criticism, anarchist. It is difficult to discern the underlying basis of Kozol's critique--or to discover if he has one at all--for he fails to offer solutions to the problems he describes in such detail. In the closing paragraphs of the book, Kozol lets on that...
FROM THE ONSET of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, Spain was the only European country where the Anarchists flourished. Marxist socialism was a "civilized" import that came later, hailing the eventual benefits of modernization and preaching gradualism. But landless Andulusian Farm hands and Catalonian textile workers were Anarchists until 1939--they dreamed of a collective society run by ordinary people and not by petty officials. The Socialists and Communists controlled Madrid during the Civil War, and the city knew no internal disorder. In Barcelona, where Anarchist workers held sway, there was revolution...
WEST GERMANY. The greatest fear at the moment in Bonn comes not from assassins but anarchist-terrorist bands of kidnapers, who might try to spirit off Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Both Schmidt and senior Cabinet officers could be held for release of some of the more than 100 hard-core anarchists in prison around the country. To prevent that from happening, a special security group provides 300 bodyguards for leading federal officials, their offices and homes. Trained in the use of firearms and hand-to-hand combat as well as criminal psychology and identification, officers sit outside the door to Schmidt...
Sartre still claims to be an anarchist--that is, he holds individualist activity above any other. Anarchy jibes with his definition of the limit of freedom: "the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render back completely what his conditioning has given him. Which makes Genet a poet when he had been rigorously conditioned to be a thief." The Invisible Man affirms his freedom when he says...
Since science has made possible the destruction of the Human Race, the Cold War must be ended and the present anarchist character of the nation-state system must be replaced by a planetary government of limited but adequate power to meet modern needs. Hugh B. Hester Brig. Gen., U.S. Army...