Word: authoritarianism
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Perhaps an even more far-reaching change has been the introduction of agrarian reform, another program sponsored by the U.S. The break-up of large landed estates has fundamentally eroded the power of the authoritarian elite and benefited tens of thousands of Salvadoran peasants. The redistribution of land, while in many cases working imperfectly and under attack, nonetheless represents a fundamental break with El Salvador's oligarchic past...
...blocking land reform and unleashing the death squads even more. In the long run, this argument goes, such activity creates more sympathy for the rebels, lifting their chances to win the military struggle. In the event they do win, they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned...
...that leftist academics by no means saturate the University. For every "unremitting pacifist" and "self-avowed Marxist" that the conservatives name they fail to mention the Government professors who, in the recent past, have gone on record as opposing affirmative action, supporting the invasion of Grenada, and maintaining that authoritarian regimes may be the most suited for the tasks of Third World development. Perhaps the leaflet should also have stated that the Economics department carries only two Marxists, who themselves once had good reason to fear that their convictions would jeopardize their chances for tenure...
...week, the important thing was that, for once, something other than a geopolitical crisis was on the horizon. The theme behind most of the stopovers on Shultz's itinerary was democratic transition. Taken together, the visits - to El Salvador, Venezuela, Brazil, Grenada and Barbados - emphasized a hemispheric watershed. Authoritarian rule in the Americas has been gradually descending from its zenith...
...seems that Errol Louis cannot begin to write about systematic oppression under the "democratic" capitalism in the West without being labelled an apologist for authoritarian "socialism" in the East. But if Louis has argued for any world-view in his brillaint End-papers, it is that the U.S. and the USSR form an axis of repression. As long as we think that our political choices are limited to Calvin Coolidge or Josef Stalin, we will be paralyzed with fear and trembling...