Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This legislation opens with a "working definition" of the world Communist movement "whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups, espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a Communist totalitarian dictatorship in all the countries of the world...
...into the authoritarian governments where man existed for the state. To Reporter Streit an arresting fact emerged: the democracies controlled two-thirds of the world's trade, most of the world's natural resources. The democracies owned the earth and didn't know it. The totalitarian nations depended upon them for their very existence. And yet the democracies-he listed 15-were pushed about and some of them inevitably would be overwhelmed...
...held and from his few public statements known to the West, Malenkov may be classified as a practical more than a theoretical Marxist. His talent and the stages of his career tend to parallel those of Stalin. He is unquestionably a first-rate organizer, with a flair for totalitarian political management. As a party intellectual, he is a sort of lower middlebrow, whose unshakeable ideological orthodoxy is tempered with hard common sense. He is tough and abusive to his associates-perhaps the same temper that the dying Lenin found obnoxious when he wrote, before his death, that "Comrade Stalin...
...following excerpt is from a letter we have, just received from TIME Perpetual Subscriber 101, a German living in Germany. He writes: "Having had the doubtful privilege of living in a totalitarian state for 12 years, I have been deprived of reading TIME for many years . . . When war broke out I had to put up with a dreary, TiMEless life. For an old perpetual, this was truly an ordeal. Now I am getting TIME again at the very date of issue, like any New Yorker, although I live in a tiny community some four miles from a railroad station...
...these elements that political events have been developing. Hughes traces "The Transmutation of Marxism" as the theory came to grips with the tough realities of Russian culture and turned totalitarian. Fascism developed as it learned to manipulate the mob to its own uses. He is careful to point out that force put down the power of fascism, the people did not themselves turn against its spirit...