Word: egalitarians
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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...
...presented historically as stages in a familiar pageant entitled, "How America went wrong . . . and the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation." For Reich weighs the American past and finds it wanton. The Consciousness I period is associated with the young Jeffersonian Republic-freedom-loving, egalitarian, expansive, democratic, though lamentably competitive. Its spirit stifled slowly, as America evolved into another political caricature, the pinched, repressive, committee-loving, life-suppressing, reform-minded meritocracy, which Reich seems to regard as something very like Hell on Earth. Decisive moments in this decline into bondage were the Great Depression...
...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...