Word: authoritarianism
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Citizenship may negate revolution in the state, but citizenship in the state does not generate corporate citizenship. Walzer forcefully insists on a right of revolution against corporate authority. Judged as a political community rather than a piece of property, the corporation is an authoritarian system, "The issue is not ownership but what ownership entails...
...have a vast plan in my pocket," boasted Lieut. General Juan Carlos On-gania to his countrymen four years ago after an army coup had installed him as President of Argentina. It became increasingly clear that Ongania's chief aim was to perpetuate his own authoritarian rule. To do so, he sought to create a corporate state in the style of Italy's Mussolini or Spain's Franco. Instead of holding elections, Ongania planned to establish a "three-pillared state" by appointing representatives of the unions, business interests and the technical-professional class to new executive advisory...
Peace Pigs. To cope with the dramatically different campus of today, university police chiefs try to weed out authoritarian types among their men who may provoke more trouble than they control. Berkeley's top cop, William Beall, frankly admits that he looks for "Peace Corps" types who can assure the students that "we are less likely to escalate the situation." And Don Schwartzmiller, security chief of Kent State's force, makes sure he knows what his officers will do "if they're called pigs by youngsters who mean it." Says Schwartzmiller: "Their reactions have to be under...
...President has gone unchecked in his authoritarian practice of foreign war policy," said state represenfative H. James Shea (D.-Newton), author of the recent bill challenging the constitutionality of the war. "The war will end when we take shrewd, aggressive action against it on all jevels of government...
Americans, he believed, would find the British parties too dictatorial and authoritarian. "But the parties, you know, are very attractive to politicians...