Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THEIR REVOLT was crushed in short order. But then, no regime can tolerate for long an uprising of its own praetorian guard, and when a group of sailors at Kronstadt confronted the Bolsheviks with cries of unfilled promises and scorn for falsified slogans, the government had no choice but to act fast...
...BEDFORD, Mass, Aug 3-The former whaling capital of the world, now holding the highest unemployment rate in the country, has been quiet for two days following a week of militant revolt by blacks and Puerto Ricans. But the truce is unacknowledged, and perhaps non-existent...
...larger cities, as black militants zero in on selected targets in the white community and then retreat to the ghetto. Bombings of police stations by radicals, white or black, have already become a big-city fact of life. Violence is unpredictable: Chicago's blacks did not revolt when police killed Black Panther Fred Hampton, but a minor grocery-store dispute set off last week's Miami rioting. A random incident can either pass almost unnoticed or set off a riot that endures for days...
...only for the moment, "the utterly unbearable situation of anonymity." And he can accomplish this without getting involved, without resorting to violence. But when such halfway measures fail, the individual who denies his autonomy confronts a more dreadful alternative: convinced at last of his own valuelessness, he must revolt against this self-debasement. "To inflict pain and torture at least proves that one can affect somebody." writes May. "To be actively hated is almost as good as to be actively liked...
Working hard at tasks defined by others is the quality of a submissive creature, and we have always been taught to be more submissive than men. This in no way means that women do not become revolutionaries-indeed, our revolt is all the more profound and authentic when it does occur, because our entire lives have been spent, in a variety of subtle ways, in a service of subservient capacity...