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...etat in order to save Spain from the 20th century." There was no indication that any such extreme solution was at hand. But the outburst of violence posed the most serious sabotage threat yet to Spain's step-by-step transition under King Juan Carlos from dictatorship to representative democracy...
...brink of disaster. Violence was openly preached, workers were exhorted not to work, students not to study and government servants to break their oath. National paralysis was propagated in the name of revolution. The government had to act and did act." She spoke on, defending once again the virtual dictatorship under which her Congress Party had quashed all political opposition, imprisoned dissidents, gagged the press and postponed general elections...
...very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic for Social Studies tutorials, in this institution. Harvard is run by a bureaucratic dictatorship, properly fueled and oiled by corporate money, revealing in its internal organization and government its true nature. What is needed is not just momentary attention to the protests over Fox's plan, but the creation of the proper institutional tools to prevent such outrageous attempts to be repeated: complete student...
...device can be made obsolete, no device can be forgotten or erased from the arsenal of technology. While the currents of politics and of culture can be stopped, deflected, or even reversed, technology is irreversible. In recent years, Germany, Greece and some other countries have gone from democracy to dictatorship and back to democracy. But we cannot go back and forth be tween the kerosene lamp and the electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain...
Bright's system sometimes touches the right-wing edge of politics. In 1974, during a Campus Crusade campaign that drew hundreds of thousands in Seoul, Bright praised the anti-Communist South Korean dictatorship for supposedly allowing more religious liberty than the U.S. A year ago, he wrote a pamphlet to urge U.S. Christians to elect "men and women of God" to public office. He also got entangled with Third Century Publishers, which espouses Evangelical Christianity and hard right-wing politics. (It opposed Jimmy Carter because of his liberalism.) Even the tolerant Billy Graham publicly criticized Bright for trying...