Word: dictatorship
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...ultimately talking about: the West's continued reluctance to face the facts, whether out of "spiritual impotence" or in the name of so-called intellectual detachment. How much more evidence do we need before admitting what the Communists are after? Those of us who grew up in one dictatorship can easily detect the evils of another...
...people must finally be their own masters, share the ownership of their resources, peasants being well organized into collective units... These are principles from the experiences of others, like China, Yugoslavia, Rumania. I don't want regimentation. I just wouldn't like that I feel revulsed by dictatorship personally, whether it is done by individuals or by states. People have got to have the democratic right to make their decisions even if they don't want to be collectivized...
...THIS SAME Georges Marchais who, at the 1976 East Berlin Conference, sided with the Italian Communist Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer in advocating insubordination to Moscow. It was this same Georges Marchais who, in 1976 at the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, scratched the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" from the official party charter. And had not the PCF repeatedly denounced the Soviet Union for its disregard for human rights? Indeed, since the middle 60s, the party tempered its revolutionary character to achieve greater political integration. In collaborating with the Socialists, the PCF doubled its traditional 20-per-cent...
...where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After the Péréz Jiménez dictatorship was overthrown, Aguilar became Minister of Justice under the new Democratic Action government...
...story of his inability to see the truth of what his ties with the Pinochet dictatorship mean for the people of Chile is one of naivete, myopia and poignance. It is also the story of a man's deeply flawed moral judgement. In essence, Harberger puts the welfare if the people he knows and loves before the welfare of an entire people; he fails to imagine the suffering of people he does not know...