Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urging a stronger attempt to understand Communism, Conant described three steps, trying to envision the totalitarian state, trying to understand the schooling of members of the communist party, and trying to understand the tents of Marxism-Leninism...
Conant explained the totalitarian state as one with complete censorship, complete control of education, spying of friends upon friends and children on parents and the one-party system. The schooling of party members is a highly organized indoctrination system with courses of study ranging up to three years for top national leaders, he said...
...second public evening session on Tuesday, John H. Fischer, superintendent of schools in Baltimore, and George S. Counts, professor emeritus of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will speak on "The Situation in the United States Related to the Challenge of Totalitarian Education...
...purely Hellenic, for we have already incorporated Christian elements such as the concept of time as going somewhere. This notion of progress, of the future justifying the present, of a paradise for which today's effort must be directed, this division of ends and means which has created totalitarian ideology, is of Biblical origin. A Moscow Purge has more in common with a Catholic Inquisition to save souls, than a trial of Socrates for disturbing the polis...
...reduce their immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West's aid programs are curtailed or eliminated, the Communists can win Asia by little more...