Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of surveillance, harassment and repression of the American left and the workers movement. From the persecution of Eugene V. Debs under the Espionage Act during World War I through the Smith Act attack on Trotskyists in the 1940s and the Communist Party in the 1950s, the drive for imperialist war abroad has always has always justified a war at home against all opposition. Under the guise of combatting "terrorism", FBI guidelines, presidential directives, Supreme Court rulings and Congressional measures have granted sweeping powers to military and secret police agencies for actual state-supported terrorism against the American people...
...acting against their interests. What Americans have not yet grasped is that terrorism is often a necessary byproduct of misguided foreign policy. Because the United States has acted carelessly, even recklessly, as a world power. Americans abroad have become ready targets for anti-American or anti-imperialist sentiment...
...this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist if you oppose such aggression...
...existence of an international agency with powers more widespread than existing United Nations groups would keep any one power from establishing dominance over the developing nation in question. The organization would allocate funds for investment in specific areas. In essence, it would fulfill the developmental functions of an imperialist power without seeking to control the country or drain it of its resources...
Adams also criticized the government of Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald as a "small-potato republic mimicking its British imperialist masters." Thatcher and FitzGerald, who have been cooperating closely in the fight against I.R.A. terrorism, are scheduled to meet later this month to discuss the continuing problems that plague their mutual border...