Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humiliations" of Vietnam. Moynihan presents himself as the defender of an imperiled Western civilization and increasingly threatened individual human rights. Time and again, he has pointed to what he believes is the gradual swallowing up, since World War II, of liberal democratic regimes in a sea of totalitarian states welling up from the third world. He expressed his vision most starkly in a speech last October in San Francisco: "It is sensed in the world that democracy is in trouble. There is blood in the water and the sharks grow frenzied...
...desire to convince Americans that the aims of our foreign policy are not the defense of a world-wide system of U.S. military and economic domination. In the recent past, the U.S. has attempted to bomb Indochinese anticolonialists into submission and has continuously supported and invested in overtly totalitarian regimes like Chile, South Korea, and Iran, where torture, censorship and political repression are the everyday instruments of government. Now, as popular consciousness is increasingly sensitive to the gap between American rhetoric and reality, Moynihan's efforts to create a new demonology are of crucial importance in restoring domestic support...
...Communist parties are changing, becoming more independent of Moscow, sloughing off archaic Stalinist ideology. Socialists, therefore, can safely ally themselves with Communists in a common leftist drive for power. Mitterrand's views have been challenged as being too ingenuous about Communist intentions, most recently in The Totalitarian Temptation, a new book by disillusioned Socialist Jean-François Revel (TIME...
...Without Marx or Jesus that the U.S. was the last best hope for genuine world revolution. Now Revel is at it again. At a time when many non-Communist leftists in Europe are getting newly enthusiastic about coalitions with Communist parties, he insists in a new book called The Totalitarian Temptation that there is no Communism but Stalinism. Any alliance with it, says Revel, is political suicide...
Early in the week, Moynihan got into a short but sharp verbal tussle with his Russian counterpart. The admission of the P.L.O. delegation, Moynihan protested, showed a "totalitarian" disregard for due process that threatened to turn the U.N. into "an empty shell." Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik replied: "I agree with the professor, who lectured us that totalitarianism is a terrible thing indeed. But no less terrible is gangsterism." Moynihan had the last, somewhat heavy word: "Totalitarianism is bad, gangsterism is worse, but capitulationism is the worst...