Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suzanne Labin writes with a hatpin. This young (thirtyish) French political scientist impales totalitarian myths and neutralist delusions, prods lukewarm intellectuals who rarely rise to the defense of democracy, or if they do, praise it with faint damns. Author Labin has small use for so-called thinkers who don the smoked glasses of a spurious objectivity and report that they can see no difference between Western freedom and Eastern tyranny except "shades of grey." She believes that it is worth restating the great central truth, or "secret," of democracy, i.e., that it is the first, last, best and only hope...
Hamlet or Othello? The book is an exercise in anti-gullibility, an examination of the totalitarian sophistries about the free world which democrats have often uncritically swallowed. The prime myth of the totalitarians. Nazi. Fascist or Communist, is that they are modern, "the wave of the future." In reality, they are as age-old as tyranny. According to the Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong...
...specifically made out to condemn Franco and the principles he stood for, and this policy was reasserted by a vote of the General Assembly on December 12, 1946 and again in the April-May session in 1949. Franco's dictatorial record is unique in the history of existing totalitarian regimes. In many respects not even Russia can compare with it, for Russia's was instituted by force from within, not by the decisive force of outside powers...
...effects of psychological torture on men of intelligence and faith have been recurrently evident in mock trials, both in Poland and Nuremberg, which first suggested the idea to her. The Prisoner, however, identifies no nation nor name. It is essentially a film which reaffirms a Christian ethic in any totalitarian state in any time...
...isolation of the totalitarian leadership also results in "constant suspicion; hence, constant endeavors to eliminate causes of suspicion," he believes...