Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The joyous mood that overtook Iran after the Shah fled the country was all but over. Last week Iran faced new violence, new tests of wills, new forebodings about an uncertain future that might involve chaos, coups, civil war. Without much visible success, the government of the Shah's...
Granted, there are about 42 other guys scrambling over each other in the GOP trying to take credit for the Tax Revolt, the Second American Revolution. And all asking "Who Lost China?" and saying "Guns Don't Kill People, Inflation Kills People." The Republicans seem to think they have a...
Q: You have said that you do not favor radical change, but change over a long period of time--evolution, not revolution. Could you explain this more and say how you see this developing in the USSR?
A: I must explain my position on this. The political questions of fighting, violence, revolution--these are not my profession. I think that violence in politics is a very hard thing; it leads to a very large portion of blood, death and so on.
Of course, we understand that our system is very conservative. It is a system with great differences in position--a party elite--but it presents the front of a monolith. Our society, the way it is today, could not evolve in a good direction; but revolution would be more tragic...