Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the national party's Central Committee have not been mentioned by press or radio for the past six months, and more and more China watchers are coming to believe that the reported purges reflect a far wider struggle to succeed ailing Mao Tse-tung. The faction currently in the ascendancy seems to be using its opportunity to junk allies of the losers, but among the gainers almost certainly is Defense Minister Lin Piao. Travelers recently returning to Hong Kong from China report having seen posters declaring "Long Live Chairman Mao! Long Live Lin Piao...
...stood before the cheering delegates at the Dortmund convention. Gone was the dynamic but phony "Kennedy pose" that his public relations advisers had forced on him for last autumn's campaign. He demonstrated his new command of the party by decisively whipping a small, vociferous left-wing faction into line, then easily and naturally expounded his policy designed to lead to a unified Germany. He has always believed in kleine Schritte-small steps-toward that end, and the exchange of speakers with the Communists neatly fitted the pattern of limited contacts intended to break the ice of the cold...
...splits can be traced back at least to 1947, Powers said yesterday, when Marvin ran for chairman of the permanent class committee. Though Marvin was a popular First Class Marshal in 1941, a faction of the committee was opposed, for personal reasons, to his campaign in 1947. The faction boycotted the election meeting and Marvin was finally elected by Powers, Morris Yarosh '41 and several proxy votes, all of which added up to a clear majority...
...faction charged that Marvin was unfit for class leadership. This time they were joined by Powers, and formed a special committee of Powers, George H. Hanford '41 and David D. Henry '41. This committee has been leading class affairs ever since...
...theory of participatory democracy has its roots in the American Constitutional Convention of 1789, as the founders of SDS observed during the Port Huron Conference of 1962. Madison, citing Montesquieu, wrote in The Federalist Papers that only small nations could remain truly democratic. In a large country, one big faction might blot out the rights of a slightly smaller faction by means of a simple majority. The New Leftists, accordingly, believe that the United States has grown too large to rely on the simple majority alone and that consensus politics must return if justice is to be maintained...