Word: authoritarianism
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...evil big business' 2500 percent profit to an independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation of the corrupt, market-Leninist, cruel-repressive, authoritarian Chinese state into a free, liberal, shiny-happy, kinder-gentler, just, western-style democratic nation...
...Korea's first civilian president since General Park Chung Hee staged a coup in 1961 and established military authoritarian rule, has issued a sweeping rebuke of the practice of naemul since taking office earlier this year. In a cascade of reform legislation, Kim has attempted to put the practice of naemul out of commission for good...
...readings rendered DuBois' words--words of one of America's great cultural civilizers and freedom fighters--accessible to a generation of both Black and non-Black students who are far removed from those quasi-authoritarian and viciously racist realities that defined the African-American status in DuBois...
Bill Clinton, like other Western leaders, fully backed Yeltsin's use of force, saying the Russian President had "no other choice than to try to restore order." Still, many in the West were worried that Yeltsin might choose to emphasize the authoritarian part of his new activism at the expense of the democracy. Their concern was eased when Yeltsin declared on television last week that parliamentary elections would be held as scheduled on Dec. 12. Now Western attention will focus on how free and fair they...
...overriding purpose must be to expand the world's community of market-based economies . . . We seek to enlarge the circle of nations that live under those free institutions." That goal has led the U.S. to support Boris Yeltsin at all costs, which has so far meant ignoring his authoritarian impulses. Russia is a special case, of course, but other states of the former Soviet empire eager for democracy and free markets are also eager for security from Russia. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic view membership in an expanded NATO as the way to achieve it. Against the wishes...