Word: equalitarianism
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...rest of the world; 2) promises about the future, which we have no right to make and which prevent us from, or make us feel guilty about, growing; 3) inflexible roles, roles which do not reflect us at the moment but are inherited through mimicry and inability to define equalitarian relationships...
...seems likely that China's revolt came in reaction to Stalinist-style subordination. As the poorer partner, China industrializing had everything to gain by an equalitarian relationship with industrial Russia. Soviet charges that the Chinese arbitrarily harassed the technicians sent there are hard to believe. The accusation that the Chinese see virtue in poverty is a palpable lie which Soviet spokesmen cannot document by reference to any Chinese publication or statement...
Professor Jaffe is rightly disconcerted by my reference to New York Jews. In trying to indicate that the ghetto experience need not guarantee an equalitarian outlook, I sought to invoke not the Jew who chooses to segregate himself, but the Jew who segregates against other minority groups (while still striving for equality within white Christian society). I regret having left room for misinterpretation...
...Negro "status seeker," as Mr. Frederick H. Gardner justly observed in last Friday's CRIMSON, is not an effective "equalitarian." He does not win our admiration as do the courageous freedom fighters. But it is presumption to scorn the Negro who seeks personal betterment. Few persons are cut out to be crusaders, and to insist that every Negro is under moral compulsion to make himself an unwilling sacrifice is cruel and destructive...
...would like to take the opportunity to broaden this final point. If the ghetto does not impart an equalitarian strain to its victims, then it impresses the dog-eat-dog ethos upon them, and perpetuates a cycle of discrimination. The image of Jewish landlords violating state housing laws at the expense of Harlem tenants, to my mind, fits this cycle; so does Negro persecution and exploitation of Puerto Ricans and other Negroes. Advancing the cycle to grant the Negro middle class its exploitative prerogatives does not complement the civil rights movement...