Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...N.C.C. denies the charge that it has funded Communist governments. But it has in fact channeled material goods to the Viet Nam regime in order to help peasants. While that is the only way to operate in the totalitarian country, N.C.C. statements consistently ignore the fact that the "new economic zones" it supports are part of an oppressive political pattern. Churches would never be so shortsighted in treating, say, South Africa...
...Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
Anthropologists admit that some scholars might not print anything at all about so controversial a subject. Field research in some totalitarian countries, says Columbia University's Thomas Bernstein, demands "a great deal of tact and sensitivity." He concedes: "If I knew that my publication of some material would cause my colleagues to be barred from China, I would think really hard." Some U.S. scholars working in India and Pakistan are careful not to offend their host governments for fear of being expelled. Americans who work as exchange scholars in the Soviet Union can afford to be a bit more...
...Liang's conviction that political movements must be founded on personal motives. In a simple, direct style he describes the special motives of members of each mass movement he witnessed--motives which vary from true love of Mao to a yearning for rank and privilege--and shows how the totalitarian system manipulates these individual motives to assure that the mass remains loyal, Criticism of Mao appears as virtual sacrilege in this society, and no one dares voice it directly, Instead, politics becomes a competition to prove who is the most zealous supporter...
...based on human rights was the only system which would yield the ends he desired, and that Soviet communist society could not. "Communist ideology is not a complete fraud," he writes. "It arose from a striving for truth and justice, like other religious, ethical and philosophical systems. But the totalitarian structure of the government, he adds, has led the nation to "the deepest historical dead...