Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second sea change came in the 1960s when the angry New Left, convinced that liberals and conservatives were alike in their Viet Nam-cold war complicity, trashed the liberal scene. The Commentary crowd, including men like Pat Moynihan, recoiled in shock from leftists who extolled the totalitarian "social justice" of a Cuba or a China. To Irving Kristol, 20th century liberalism has become neo-socialism, a creed "more interested in equality than in liberty." Critic Alfred Kazin concludes that liberal and conservative are "fraudulent and intellectually useless terms." Why not, asks another, declare a moratorium on both words, since both...
...pieces, documents and photos-is to inspect and debate the mythic purity of modern art, to see how it really has worked in society and not just how it hoped to work. Ten years ago, anyone who argued that the Bauhaus tradition of functionalist design might suit the totalitarian spirit would have been dismissed as a loon. The main architecture show in Venice this year, a fascinating assembly called "Rationalism and Architecture in Italy During the Fascist Regime," irrefutably demonstrates how it could and did. Likewise, we suppose that the "advanced" movements in Spanish art during the past 40 years...
...that resolves any self-doubts the criticism generated. Think back to the causes of the critical "young elite" (itself a phrase intended to put the left into the heirarchical world Moynihan feels comfortable in): Did they fear the "overwhelming power" of the Vietcong (who, Moynihan incorrectly says, were a "totalitarian regime...not many years back."). Or did they simply respect the right of the Vietnamese to choose their leaders and form of government and society without the interference of the United States? Did the left fear the MPLA in Angola or did they recognize the right of the Angolans...
...kinds of dreams we have. It's ironic to the point of national neurosis that the most extreme of the Republicans, the self-dubbed part of capitalist "freedom," should represent near-fascism; and that the Democrats, often described by the Right as creepingly socialistic and thus, totalitarian, should have Its trust-busting extremists favoring somehing like a small-scale competitive economy and society...
...fear of the expansion of Communism in Western Europe stems not from its supposed threat to democracy -we have supported several totalitarian leaders sympathetic to U.S. commercial interests-but from our assumption that Communism would eliminate capitalism and individualism, the "American...