Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...