Word: totalitarian
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...sharp contrast, the managed economies exist mostly in one-party states or under completely totalitarian regimes. Any government that tries to dictate almost every decision on production, prices and wages assumes an arbitrary power that would be impossible to reconcile with political freedom. In most managed economies, for example, a strike by workers is a crime against the state; it can hardly be prohibited without suppressing the right to advocate such a strike...
...appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...
...nearly three decades of totalitarian rule, the Korean Workers' Party (as the Communist Party is called) has eliminated all traces of political opposition and most private property. The state owns and operates all manufacturing and service enterprises, while peasants have been forced to surrender all but a tiny portion of their land to collective or state farms...
Writers also seem to have an inclination to assume a sense of mission (to preserve the national culture against totalitarian rule). Thomas Mann in his California villa remained the embodiment of German culture, resisting the barbarism of Goebbels and Co. Solzhenitsyn, though not published in Russia in the last ten years before he was expelled, still had a sense of speaking for the people, representing the national values against the neo-Stalinist pragmatism of Brezhnev. Similarly Czech writers, particularly Kundera. Vaculik and Kohout sensed the necessity to remain in their country. In touch with their people, even in this period...
...first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states--then what...