Word: authoritarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inauguration of a new President, but the ceremony signaled no easing of the reins. In a brief swearing in, low-keyed President-select (meaning selected by the generals) Ernesto Geisel promised to uphold a constitution that his three immediate predecessors (all generals) had carefully tailored to meet their authoritarian requirements...
Almost contemptuous of the future of Western democracy-especially in the U.S.-Solzhenitsyn asserts that for Russia there can be no alternative to authoritarian rule in the foreseeable future. This, he argues, must be based on national self-interest, and not on ideology.He believes that the Sino-Soviet conflict critically endangers Russia's future...
...only have diminished. I am inclined to think that its sudden reintroduction today would be merely a melancholy repetition of 1917 ... So should we not perhaps acknowledge that for Russia this path was either false or premature, and that, for the foreseeable future, Russia is destined to have an authoritarian order? Perhaps this is all she is ripe for today. Everything depends on what kind of authoritarianism lies in store...
Should we console ourselves with the thought that for a thousand years Russia lived with an authoritarian order? And at the beginning of the 20th century, both the physical and spiritual health of her people were still intact. In those days, however, an important condition was fulfilled: that authoritarian order possessed a strong moral foundation. Although it was embryonic and rudimentary, it reposed, not on the ideology of universal violence, but on Christian Orthodoxy... Once this moral principle was perverted and weakened, the authoritarian order, in spite of the external successes of the state, gradually went into a decline...
College newspaper columns of the time were filled with complaints that grading resulted in such academic horrors as "an authoritarian relationship between teacher and student" and "an undesirable reward structure" that "corrupts the educational process...