Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that very moment, as it happened, Spanish officials were investigating an abortive plot to overthrow the democratic government of Premier Adolfo Suárez and bring back authoritarian rule. The conspiracy, code-named Operation Galaxia after the café in which it was hatched, involved five officers in the paramilitary Civil Guard, the National Police and the army. Although details were sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King...
...really have a 'group line', "Marty Blatt, a member of Black Rose, says. "We are not all socialist-anarchists. Some of us have been more influenced by the American individualist tradition. But I think we are all anti-authoritarian and critical of capitalism and communism. Marxist-Leninist communism is authoritarian, bureaucratic and hierarchical. Marxists don't reject domination and authority-they want to be authorities...
Erendira is physically incapable of revolt although her thoughts turn to it often. On one level Marquez is pointing out the stifling effects that can result from deeply ingrained traditions of family loyalty, particularly strong in Latin cultures. Also, he is protesting any form of authoritarian rule when it passes the bounds of reason and dignity...
...with certain authenticated truths. He comes also with the knowledge that he is visiting the world's most populous nation, perhaps a billion people inhabiting a land mass only slightly larger than the U.S. It is of course a Communist nation long opposed to America. It is an authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons and the once ubiquitous little Red Book of Mao's quotations are seldom seen today. The people...
...self, Spender seems to have been less consistently wrong than fairminded. He was generous in praise of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, whose work had political leanings alien to his own: "The reactionaries never thought that they should put their art at the service of the ideology of the authoritarian fascistic leaders, in the way that many leftists thought that they should put theirs at the service of Marxism and of the political bureaux which laid down the Communist Party lines...