Word: authoritarianism
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...daring to criticize the constitution or advocate its revision was subject to 15 years in prison. Even foreign reporters were warned to be careful about what they wrote; Japanese correspondents were summoned to the Information Office and given a stern dressing down on past dispatches discrediting Park's authoritarian regime. To underline the threat, the Japanese ambassador was told to caution his country's reporters about Park's new dos and don'ts. South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) was given power to investigate the constitution's critics, and army generals were...
...Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely elected Marxist leader in the world was killed in a right-wing rebellion in Chile; a changing of the guardians refurbished authoritarian rule in Greece. For Americans, the dying finally ended in the paddyfields and jungles of Viet Nam, but more than 50,000 Vietnamese killed each other after the long-awaited "peace...
...character is society. Echoing arguments he has sprinkled throughout a score of earlier books, Fromm cites Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the third millennium B.C. as being the fall from Eden. At that point simple rural egalitarian society began giving way to cities, authoritarian rule and organized industrial and military power. Alienated from his work and no longer free, man needed new ways to express his humanity, to demonstrate that he could still affect the world around him. Thus warps of character appeared: sadism, the passion to control others, and necrophilia, the attraction to death and destruction. That sadism...
Other observers believe that the swing back to stronger discipline has already occurred. Child Psychologist Zan-wil Sperber notes that "we are beyond do-good permissiveness," but are in a "very flux-y situation. Some people undoubtedly are going back to the idea of role-authoritarian discipline. That is when you say to a child, 'Why should you listen to me? Because I am your mother, that's why.' " Says Psychiatrist James Anthony: "There's definitely been a return of discipline. And with the emergence of a stronger parent has come 'the model child...
...military government in Brazil enforces its authoritarian power with clear-cut repression. In 1968, the military established rule by decree, shutting down Congress, abolishing political rights including habeas corpus for political prisoners, and bypassing the courts. Reports of the torture of prisoners continue to filter...