Word: egalitarian
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...cannot view a change in the way we staff our army as an ideological issue in a political vacuum. Registration is not being revived at this time with the primary intention of making the armed forces more egalitarian or more civilian-influenced. At best, these would be only peripheral functions of a potentially dangerous aggressive posture...
...also recognize and regret that no conscription system in our country can be fully egalitarian. People with economic means can pursue other options to military services, from fabricating medical deferments to emigrating. During the Vietnam War, there were gross inequities along race and class lines, despite the existence of a draft. Yes, the "volunteer" army is problematic, but its problems reflect those of the larger social context of our country. Only when we achieve full employment and equal access to education, housing and health care will we be able to resolve our severe inequities. These goals are attained...
...current "volunteer" army is a disgraceful institution for any country that actively advocates an egalitarian social order. In reality, this method of military selection is merely a cruel hoax perpetrated upon the poorer classes of society, since these are the people who are forced into the military by their lack of jobs and other opportunities. A system whereby poor people are forced by economic necessity to risk their lives for the benefit of society at large is hardly egalitarian. The current composition of the army--30 per cent black and other third world people, the remainder largely poor and uneducated...
...Ayatullah capture a revolution that started out as a leaderless explosion of resentment and hate? Primarily by playing adroitly to, and in part embodying, some of the psychological elements that made the revolt possible. There was, for example, a widespread egalitarian yearning to end the extremes of wealth and poverty that existed under the Shah ?and the rich could easily be tarred as clients of the "U.S. imperialists." Partly because of the long history of Soviet, British and then American meddling in their affairs, Iranians were and are basically xenophobic, and thus susceptible to the Ayatullah's charges that...
Recent wall posters in Peking criticized the now tests as evidence of a continuing "deviation from the Maoist line of egalitarian non competitiveness" and blamed the exams on "American imperialist SAT mongering." However, the government downplayed the posters as "further counterrevolutionary critism of the regime from the notorious Gang of Four...