Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But Gloria Steinem, former president of the National organization for Women, asked the audience to do "something outrageous in the next 24 hours" to aid "the revolution."
"When we talked about revolution and reform in the '60s, our male collegues thought we were talking about taking over the radio stations and the t.v. networks. They didn't know we were talking about more than that," Steinem said.
So said the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week, fuming against secular opponents who might stand in his way. The blunt warning, delivered to a visiting delegation of air force officers at his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, erased any lingering doubts about where the Ayatullah is determined to...
Unable to bear the thought that the new was turning into a confirmation of what he had sought to destroy, Mao launched himself into ever more frenzied campaigns to save his people from themselves. Many revolutions have been made to seize power and to destroy existing structures. Never has their...
One of history's monumental ironies is that probably no one better understood the inherent dilemmas of Communism than the titanic figure who made the Chinese Revolution. Pragmatic Communism leads to mandarinism, nationalism and institutionalized privilege. His critique of Soviet Russia was so wounding to the Russians because it...