Word: authoritarianism
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...more to do with biology than patriarchy. Even after the most egalitarian of educations, for instance, women tend to be more nurturing than men and to need things like security and commitment in order to be happy. Men, on the other hand, tend to be more aggressive and authoritarian. They also tend to revel in insecurity and shun commitment. Despite the many obstacles encouraging women to the contrary, women tend to want children and the chance to stay at home with them; men tend to do better competing in the workplace because of their different needs and dispositions...
...will remain in place or be overturned by elderly hard-liners who survive him. Can the Communist Party, with waning legitimacy and faith, provide the stability to keep the vast country on track and under control? Can China, like neighboring Singapore or South Korea, strike a lasting balance between authoritarian politics and free-for-all capitalism...
Though the formerly totalitarian government is now simply authoritarian, the leaders make no pretense of easing the hard hand of the police state to permit any political diversity or plurality, let alone real democracy. Dissidents are still arrested and thrown into prison. Even so, the high-energy drive for economic diversity and the freedom that offers to talented people have helped open the society -- so long as individuals do not challenge the state. "There is more openness in China now," says a senior Western diplomat in Beijing, "than at any time in the past, and far more than under Gorbachev...
Quite the contrary. Mansfield's hate-speech methodology must be seen as a weapon of Nativist Hegemony in both cultural (ideological) terms and regulatory terms, which is to say inevitably I think in quasi-authoritarian or crypto-fascist terms. Keep in mind, in this connection, the Rev. Pat Roberts and Pat Buchanan...
...Sweet Bunch" at 9 p.m. The diary of the lifeand death of a group of young misfits who turn anold mansion into a commune, while under thesurveillance of an undefined authoritarian group.The film involves four amoral heroes consciouslyabandoning social rites, while seeking thegreatest possible freedom, companionship and truelove, eventually choosing their own means ofdeath...