Word: dictatorship
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...snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
...human rights. But the Spanish Communist leader goes much further: he flatly rejects the Soviet Union as a model for Western European Communism, calling instead for a socialist but democratic Western Europe that is dominated by neither the Soviet Union nor the U.S. He examines the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat and finds it undemocratic. In short, he gives the Soviets plenty to get angry about...
WHERE MOSCOW WENT WRONG. [The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968] was the last straw. Any idea of internationalism ended for us ... Progress of the socialist movements in the developed capitalist countries would aid Soviet society and Soviet Communists in making progress in their transformation [from the present dictatorship] into an authentic workers' democracy. This is a historic necessity that would greatly benefit the cause of socialism. So it is all the more lamentable that in 1968 our Czechoslovak comrades were not allowed to continue their experiment...
...social democracy! ... We do not rule put, by any means, the possibility of taking power through revolution, if the dominant classes close democratic channels and the circumstances that make revolution possible were to come about. [But in Spain today] we affirm that it is possible to go from dictatorship to democracy without force...
Depression and Dynamite. The basic situation of The Wages of Fear is retained. The setting is still an imaginary Latin American dictatorship, more corrupt and depressed than even Conrad might have dreamed up. Once again there has been a blowout in a remote oil well, for which the only remedy is a lot of dynamite. Friedkin carefully-too carefully-sets all this up. He explains just why the well is not reachable by air and why the only available dynamite has aged into a highly volatile condition. Finally, as before, four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited...