Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to discourage terrorists from trying again. Despite the obvious need for toughness in such situations, any democratic country faces dangers from too harsh as well as from too weak a reaction. The only countries that may prove immune to the new terror may be the most authoritarian ones. Winning out over terror is of little benefit if it leads to a police force with permanently enlarged powers and a citizenry with permanently curtailed rights. In fact, this is precisely what many of the guerrillas want to bring about: government repression that provokes widespread discontent and ultimately revolution. The final...
...continent has picked up speed since the mid-1960s, first with the emergence of ultraconservative military regimes in Brazil and Argentina and, in 1968, with Peru's takeover by a leftist junta. The men in command may be soldiers or civilians, but they are almost uniformly authoritarian. At present, twelve of Latin America's 25 nations and over 62% of its 270 million people are ruled by far-right or far-left regimes...
There was even a sharp visual contrast between the two. Tuppeny in his blue blazer with the "U of P" in red on the pocket, stopwatch in hand. The technician. Authoritarian, McCurdy stood next to him in his grey sweatsuit, sweating. He had a beard on his face. For a Harvard fan, the contrast was easily categorized. They were crew coaches Joe Burk and Harry Parker, or even the scheming Lex Luther and Superman, who stood for truth, justice, and maybe even the American...
...theorist. I can't judge whether the Panthers, in arming themselves, may have been precipitate, bringing down on themselves more repression than they could possibly resist at this time, repression that, if it doesn't kill them, may force them, to make their organization more and more severe and authoritarian. Perhaps that decision can't be made yet. What I do know is that I feel I'm in the same struggle the Panthers are in-though with much less risk to myself. I want most of the things they want. That's why the trial in New Haven...
...Whereas the system isolates men from each other in the first place. the revolutionary's politics make his isolation both inevitable and necessary, detaching himself from the system, as well. CAPITALISM-WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL, he paints on a building and is almost beaten up by working-class-authoritarian types for being a commic. He both repudiates and is kicked out of home. university, and the Radical (liberal) Committee, and ends up with an Old Left style workers' group. which rejects and distrusts...