Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...
...what the counter culture is countering. It demands considerable attention. Roszak sees the United States as a technocratic society, in which "those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who, in turn, justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge." Technocracy, to paraphrase an important communist concept, is the highest stage of industrialism: the mature product of a society convinced of the necessity for technological progress and deeply imbued with the scientific ethos. It all meshes quite nearly. Technological progress requires rational expertise, efficiency, order, predictability-all the qualities so cherished in the scientific world-view...
...seen as motivated largely by a desire for profits and, related to this, by a desire for domination and control over the destinies of others. These desires are rationalized by equating the interests of the World with American national interest and perhaps, at a deep level, by the anti-communist religion, the "devil theory" of communism...
...thwarted search for a yet more representative staff, the Center is faced with a cruel dilemma. Members of national liberation movements or even citizens of the tamer communist countries are not likely to want to come to the Center, given its intimate association with the U. S. government...
...believe that the development of a multi-viewpoint Center along these lines has been blocked only by communist intransigence? Who are they trying to kid? Is the Defense Department or the Department of State likely to continue to pay for this kind of Center? The Ford Foundation is not likely to be of much help either if we may judge from the fate o? the Institute of Hispanic-American and L?so-Brazilian Studies at Stanford, an institution whose only apparent shortcoming was a propensity to attract Latin Americanists with independent views on the U. S. rote in the hemisphere...