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...expansionist wars were still permitted when approved by the priestly court, the Sanhedrin. Since the Sanhedrin no longer exists, the only permissible war for Jews is one of self-defense. After the disastrous Jewish war against the Romans in the first century and Bar Kokhba's last desperate rebellion in the second century, the Jews were forcibly scattered so widely that making war became virtually impossible...
Professors at Harvard, with few notable exceptions, are granted the theoretical right to advocate rebellion, to develop, and reflect on Marxist ideologies, or to argue for an end to private ownership of land, homes, factories and means of transportation. In much the same sense, editors at Time or Newsweek or The New York Times are free to view the Cuban Revolution as a positive step forward for mankind. It is a deep and clever North American deception to allow professor, scholar, editor alike, to say that they please when we know well that what they please is what we like...
OTHER COUNTRIES which inherited educational systems from the colonial period have been less fortunate than Japan. Dore had the opportunity to visit Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1971, shortly before the outbreak of a rebellion led by educated youth. According to Dore, education in Ceylon had prepared students for jobs that were unavailable. Students thought of jobs as status symbols without "intrinsic satisfaction," or opportunities for self expression and self development and useful service to society." The Ceylon government quelled the rebellion with the most violent means available including arms obtained at the spur of the moment from...
...final crescendo of middle-class rebellion that toppled the socialist government of Salvador Allende was led by Chilean truck owners, whose month-long strike against Popular Unity caused the shortages which helped cripple the government. Most of the truck-owners were not giant monopolists, but small businessmen, owners of one or a few trucks who were honestly fearful that Popular Unity planned to expropriate their property. They acted from fear, a fear that their world was about to be shattered. They could have acted no other way. And yet they helped overthrow a government dedicated to greater freedom and justice...
...only possibility consistent with obedience to Jesus Christ; 2) Accepting the necessity of violent resistance as a Christian duty in extreme circumstances, but applying to it criteria similar to those governing a "just war"; 3) Participation in already existing situations of violence by support of some kind of rebellion...