Word: authoritarianism
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Disgracefully, many Mexican and Latin American anti-imperialists, enchanted by the ideology of a totalitarian "socialism," have forgotten their democratic origins. Thus what unites yesterday's conservatives with today's radicals is not only a just anti-imperialism, but also the authoritarian and antidemocratic temple. In the Mexican middle class, the breeding ground of our leaders, it is common to rind an amalgam of the conservative sentiments of the criollos [Mexicans of pure Spanish blood] of the 19th century with the diffuse anti-imperialist ideology of the 20th. These traditional beliefs, heirs of the criollo aristocracy...
...political, beliefs. Timer man was welcomed back into the Jewish community after his release with an outpouring of derision from the Argentinean and American Jewish establishments. It has been especially embarrassing, as an American Jew, to see Jewish authorities apparently join the United States government in its distinction between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" states when it comes to Jewish oppression, making heroes of Soviet prisoners-of-conscience and discrediting victims of Argentinean anti-Semitism and political repression. And now the attack is carried on in Crimson "book review" (so little of the article actually dealt with the book that I hesitate...
...workers, and the money starts running out, with little hope of obtaining any more. In a black-market-like situation. Nowak unexpectedly begins shoplifting to keep his workers pacified and fed. Then by using the incentive of extra food to drive them harder, he assumes an increasingly authoritarian role. Especially telling is the way in which Nowak channels and fundamentally alters the worker's reality, much like a totalitarian regime. For example, on their way to a hardware store, he rips down all the Solidarity posters before his companions can see them. He even goes so far as to alter...
...gleaned is that these methods rely on questionable interpretations of highly subjective data. The Thematic Apperception technique, for instance, consists of a set of vague pictures about which subjects are asked or write fictional stories. From that, Rothman and Lichter apparently quantify the myriad characteristics of protean versus rigid authoritarian...
...much of the New Left did disintegrate into an unimaginative revolutionary mindset in the late Sixties. The Rothman-Lichter "authoritarian" model seems fairly appropriate when applied to the post-1967 years and the devolution of the Weathermen. The authors set out to explain what powered a movement, and their effort has the positive effect of prompting curiosity about the variety of factors involved. But the book quickly becomes an indictment and fails because its charges are too often obscure and exaggerated. Regardless of its pathetic demise, the SDS-led New Left deserves serious consideration of its major accomplishment, forcing this...