Word: facism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While I oppose the Contras, I believe in freedom of speech. I am terribly sorry about and ashamed of the hypocrisy of those who would oppose facism while imposing their own tyranny by refusing to let the speakers talk. I am also ashamed of the hypocrisy of those who act in violence to condemn another's violence...
...USED to be that political scientists found it was pretty simple to sketch a diagram of the spectrum of political systems and beliefs. You drew a straight line: to the extreme left was communism, to the extreme right facism. The happy medium, not surprisingly, was Western-style democracy...
Malle's new film, My Dinner With Andre, seems to turn the same trick, but with a more highbrow audience in mind. For over two hours, two men comment copiously on the human spirit, the state of art and theater, life, death, Nazism, facism, and the '60s. But when dinner's over, and the tables are cleared off, we're left with just another period piece, this one for the 1980s...