Word: authoritarianism
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...outstripping resources and accomplishments." As a result, a fertile soil is being created for those who hope to exploit the southern continent's troubles. In the near future, the report predicts, Latin America will be beset by growing instability and an increased tendency to seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that the U.S. in its own self-interest must reaffirm its old, and unfortunately unfulfilled...
...change of power was bound to be beneficial for West Germany. Twenty years in office is a long time for any party, especially in Germany, with its authoritarian heritage. Furthermore, West Germany has lacked an effective political opposition since the Socialists joined Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition three years...
...Letters at Nanterre, France's first attempt to create an American style campus university. The French botched it. No real thought was given to increasing the contacts between students and faculty. After class the professors immediately drove back to Paris. The government simply moved the whole rigidly bureaucratic and authoritarian apparatus of the French university into modern buildings. It changed its skin, but not its soul...
...Bettelheim [Sept. 5] blames American parents of college dissenters for being permissive and authoritarian. Hungarian, Czech, French and deprived black American parents too? Dissent is traditional in democratic countries and feared by fascist societies...
Basically, anarchism presents in the most extreme form the notion that man is essentially good, noble and altruistic but is perverted from his true nature by bad authoritarian institutions. In spite of all evidence to the contrary-not just the obvious beastliness of the bourgeoisie, officials and police but the perfidy, cowardice, treachery that would turn up even among the comrades-Kropotkin continued to believe in the goodness of man. If everyone were like him, anarchism might have a chance. But few men like Peter Kropotkin grow on the family tree of man-a fact that Kropotkin himself never realized...