Word: authoritarianism
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Toledo also criticized recently-deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a supporter of Fujimori, for exercising authoritarian power under the guise of democr
...laughs]. That I’m violent. People get wrong about me that I’m authoritarian. That’s what they get wrong...
...portion of the Harvard community believes that university policies are unjust, Harvard offers nothing more than infrequent token meetings with administrators. We all prefer to be part of a university with democratic structures in place to ensure that policies are accountable to students, faculty, and workers. But the incredibly authoritarian way Harvard operates ensures that broad university problems will only be resolved, if at all, in the same way that economic injustices are resolved in any other kind of corporation—not through democratic governance but through coercion...
...unions' main gripe now: a government plan to privatize 11 public corporations such as Lee's employer Korea Electric Power Co. Labor Minister Bang Yong Seok says the strikes are a waste of time and that there's no possibility of changing the plan. Bang, who fought authoritarian rule as a young union leader in the 1970s, says, in the global economy today, only competitive companies survive, and unions have to get with the program...
Even today, officials within the ruling political machine of Singapore —a “soft”-authoritarian right-wing police state that holds political prisoners without trial and engages in grandiose social engineering—receive frequent invitations to speak at Harvard, with only the faintest opposition in the background...