Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These social evils and injustices are perpetrated and maintained by the power structure. So we see a relentless revolutionary struggle being waged for these very things against the ruling class...
...Eldridge [Cleaver] always puts it, is at three levels of oppression: the bigtime, tycooning, avaricious businessmen, the lying, demagogic, tricky politicians, and the fascist pig cops, militia, and pig agents who work for the avaricious, demagogic ruling class. Black people's direction should be to wage a relentless revolutionary struggle against the three levels of oppression. But it can't be handled alone by blacks. We need alliances with those whose own self-interest is to seek communities free of disorders...
...reason: it is as much involved with the pain of being black in the U.S. as Dixieland was with the exhilaration of marching in New Orleans parades. "To disturb people-at least what they mean by disturb-that's the whole point," says Sunny Murray, whose dense and relentless drumming is mind-riveting. For Coleman, it has nothing to do with conscious anger. "There's anger, but the musician is not directing it at the audience. It's anger directed at himself; he's playing about his own turmoil...
...accept efficiency as virtuous, there is a growing counter-cult that views efficiency as a dehumanizing, soul-devouring force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most "efficient" assignments of careers for its many human subjects and, like a computerized...
...Spain, as one of the leftist intellectuals who supported-and often died for-the Loyalist cause, that Auden wrote his most political poetry. A left sympathizer, but never committing himself to Communism, he celebrated the relentless pace of Marx's History. Disillusioned and frightened by the approaching Nazi apocalypse, infatuated with a romantic conception of the working class, cagier to write for a Cause, Auden and his friends wrote poetry of violent revolution. Twenty years later, editing a collection of his works Auden amitted "Spain 1937," one of his most famous poems...