Word: totalitarian
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...which began in choral rage and ended with internecine squeals. Adler records it all, more in sorrow than anger. It was in Chicago that it all began to cohere-the demands for reparations, the open insults to Martin Luther King, the bifurcation of white radicals and black separatists, the totalitarian language. As the conference deteriorated into violent poses and elliptical rhetoric, Adler crystallizes the radical tragedy: "A movement born out of a corruption of the vocabulary of civil rights-pre-empting the terms that belonged to a truly oppressed minority and applying them to the situation of some bored children...
...relentless application of this same principle, other revisionists find American capitalist cupidity behind the decisions to go to war in Korea and Viet Nam-a clear example of twisting the facts to fit the theory. While minimizing the vices of the totalitarian leaders, Cold War revisionists invariably exaggerate the shortcomings of American statesmen. This requires something approaching a conspiracy theory of history. How else explain the fact that U.S. leaders are always doing what they say they are not doing? D. F. Fleming, professor emeritus of Vanderbilt University (The Cold War and Its Origins}, and David Horowitz (Empire...
...convenantal constitutional commonwealth, America is the greater for acknowledging through us, an articulate loyal opposition, that we have unwittingly done a great wrong and must be prepared even to make reparations for our mistake. And at the same time, without illusion, we must remain or become realistic about the totalitarian ferocity of the other side as it emerges exhausted but triumphant...
...sees as natural, contains wrongs so deeply built-in that he does not notice them. His sense of indignation is all too easily served by the fact that so many reformers have gone beyond reform as being too slow, and are using methods ranging from rude to downright totalitarian. The issues that arouse and haunt Middle America form a catalogue of national crises, tied together by an underlying crisis in values...
...George Orwell's chillingly prescient novel 1984, the totalitarian state is seen as a form of organization that is assured of complete, self-perpetuating supremacy. According to Andrei Amalric, a young (31) and as yet little-known Russian writer, Orwell was way off. In a controversial essay that only recently reached the West, Amalric observes that the once monolithic Soviet state is already "distending itself and disintegrating like sour dough." Between 1980 and 1985, he predicts, it will explode in "anarchy, violence and intense national hatred...