Word: classlessness
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...much headroom for evolution. In an explanation that, ironically could be viewed as Marxist. Goldman contends that the authoritarian nature of the economic system dictates the political system's constraints. Even Soviet leaders are provided little space in which to maneuver or more accurately incentive to effect change. The "classless society" makes a clearcut distinction between the masses and the elite granting the latter inumerable privileges. As Goldman writes, "For those who do realize the true state of life, the temptation to protest is generally tempered by the realization that muckraking may lead to the withdrawal of such privileges...
...movement dates from the mid-'60s, when it was formed to oppose the Shah. By 1969 some members of the Mujahedin, organized in cells, were receiving military training from Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon and Jordan. From the start, the group integrated Islam into an ideology favoring a classless society-what one French analyst calls "Islamic Marxist sauce." In 1980, when Rajavi tried to run for President-his candidacy was vetoed by Khomeini-the Mujahedin platform focused on anticapitalist, anti-Western slogans. It demanded the nationalization of all foreign businesses run by Iranians and "continuation of the anti-imperialist struggle...
...upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them, and a man who insists that a woman accept him on his own terms. Katerina does, for she is strong and wise, and braver than he in overcoming the class problem their match presents, even in an officially classless society...
Proposition 2 1/2, in its worst form, is distorting the relations between one structure of our society and another, putting one group against the next, and turning our classless society into one of adversaries aligned one against the next...
...think you're so clever and classless and free...