Word: egalitarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private business last September, Havana suddenly sprouted plumbers, hairdressers, restaurateurs, repairmen and other overnight entrepreneurs permitted to work for themselves. But the July 1993 legalization of dollar holdings was a two-edged sword. It brought much needed hard currency into Cuba, but also split what had been a largely egalitarian society into two classes: the haves, who had access to dollars earned in the tourist industry or sent by relatives in the U.S.; and dollarless have-nots, who could not shop in the new hard-currency stores...
...that appears in the summer issue of the leftist quarterly Dissent (est. circ. 10,000), Genovese argues that many American radicals were, in effect, accomplices to mass murder. Many U.S. advocates of a Viet Cong victory in Vietnam, for example, have never accepted that what they considered a radical egalitarian democracy was in fact a cruel totalitarian dictatorship. Until the left is willing to re-examine its ideological premises and admit its past mistakes, argues Genovese, it will have no moral credibility to attack such ongoing societal ills as racism and sexism. "The left will have to clean...
...African elections, coupled with the cooperative spirit in which Nelson Mandela has begun to form the country's new government, has provided enemies of racial discrimination all over the world with a cause to celebrate. One might argue that, finally, South Africa is on the way to possessing an egalitarian political system similar to our own; a system in which, as Justice O'Connor recently put it in a Supreme Court rejection of a race conscious districting proposal in North Carolina, "race on longer matters...
Since those bygone days of unabashed elitism, Harvard's housing lottery has become far more egalitarian. Efforts have been made to increase house diversity, culminating in 1989 with the adoption of the most recent system--non-ordered choice...
...Chernin has come to this kibbutz, a small collective of fifty people who are of various nationalities and all under thirty , upon the suggestion an Australian friend, Devora whom she knows there. The kibbutzniks have build up a community based on egalitarian collective effort and who arrived together on a pre-determined date, to live, work and study Hebrew. They must bend the rules to take her in. And they do, for that is the type of woman Chernin is, or was, at least: someone for whom the rules are ignored...