Word: anti-imperialist
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...Jackson, Abolitionists and the Populist Manifestos, Schwartz presents a picture of the American as democratic agrarian. The key to revolution is an appeal to basic American morality. We must now overthrow big capitalism, regaining our spirit of liberty. "The American version of the concept of revolutionary nationalism would be anti-imperialist, humanist, and libertarian in content, and national in form and rhetoric...
Such a view contrasts sharply with that of the militant Gaddafi, whose tastes are spartan and anti-imperialist. The son of a nomadic horse and camel trader, he lived in a tent throughout his childhood. With the help of a tutor, he studied at night by the light of an oil lamp, and he remains fiercely proud that he skipped several grades after entering school. He traces his political consciousness to the late 1950s. "Everything was happening," he says. "Arab nationalism was exploding. The Suez Canal had been nationalized by the Egyptians in 1956; Algeria was fighting for its independence...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...
...feelings of cooperation finally coalesced around the Gulf Oil issue and the eventual takeover of Massachusetts Hall last Spring. Anti-imperialist action, after all, was something that everyone--black, white integrationist, nationalist--could support, and no matter what one's political viewpoint, everyone was invited to participate in the fight against Gulf. It was the first time that integrationists and nationalists freely spoke with one another, the first time in years that blacks and whites have marched together...
Through the postwar years, Americans grew accustomed to the "Yankee Go Home!" syndrome. From Caracas to Jakarta, students would mass at U.S. embassies with rocks and anti-imperialist chants. Sometimes U.S.l.A. libraries would go up in flames. Even Charles de Gaulle's France, in a basically anti-American gesture, ordered NATO'S headquarters out of the country...