Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phenomenon has no relation to the familiar, violent historical event, which, as happened in Russia, merely exchanges one form of tyranny for another. He asserts that there has been only one world revolution, which he places in the second half of the 18th century with the advent of egalitarian societies. The second world revolution, he says, will have as its goal the establishment of "economic and social equality by and through cultural and personal liberty; the guarantee of security through the participation of all in the political decisions," and eventually the creation of a world government...
Almost invariably, Radio Moscow saves its choicest epithets for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. One recent broadcast described his thought as "an unprincipled mixture of Utopian and egalitarian ideas of the peasants' uprising, Confucianism, anarchism, Trotskyism, chauvinism, Chinese feudalism, national bourgeois ideas and other ideas contrary to Marxist principles." Mao has been excoriated as an unsteady romantic who has sponsored a gigantic "cult of the individual...
...away from a deliberately competitive academic system toward one in which a student can gain satisfaction simply by coming to understand a subject and achieving some degree of competence in discussing it. Academic competition is like all others: it creates winners and losers. Our educational philosophy is not so egalitarian as to deny all distinctions among students or so idealistic as to deny the necessity of allotting educational resources discriminatively on the basis of demonstrated ability and commitment. But practical distinctions need not be publicly signified by divisive labels. And academic success need not be viewed as a competitive triumph...
...America, insofar as student and black rebellions grow, Jews are in danger. Embattled America will probe sources. Marx, Franz Boas- Jewish prophet of egalitarian cultural anthropology (universalism kills anti-Semitism), Hoffman, Rubin, Dohrn, Rudd, Chomsky. Recent outcry against Brandeis University as radical nest. Jewish Defense League. Young Jews rediscovering Judaism and Jewishness. Racial inequality doctrine returning via Lorenz, Ardrey, others. Carleton Putnam thoughtfully exploring such matters in Race and Reason and Race and Reality...
...women may have to wage a similar uphill campaign. Yet religious history favors their cause. The U.S., after all, has a certain tradition of female church leadership, including, among the earliest, Mother Ann Lee, founder of the egalitarian Shaker sect. Mary Baker Eddy continued the tradition by founding the Christian Science movement (in which a majority of the "practitioners" and "readers" are women). Indeed, both the Christian Science churches and the Shakers challenge the traditionally male image of God the "Father," referring to God as both Father and Mother. In so doing, they anticipated the admonition of early 20th century...