Word: totalitarian
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...popular victory. Be yond question, the great majority of Americans reacted angrily to U.S. Steel's price-increase announcement. That reaction was instinctive, and Kennedy exploited it skillfully. But the popularity of Kennedy's cause, and the dazzling swiftness of his triumph, obscured the almost totalitarian thrust of his attack. In his press conference, the President accused the steel companies of being ruthless; by his own tactics, he made the steelmen look like Milquetoasts. He demonstrated in unforgettable fashion that any organization or group or person that thwarts him can bring down upon itself the overwhelming might...
Barth thinks that Marx sincerely tried to correct injustice in industrial society, but he has no desire to live under a totalitarian government. He argues that Naziism attempted to defeat the church by perverting its doctrines with cultural heresies, whereas Communism is an atheistic political system based upon philosophical ideas that must be countered with other ideas. And God, Barth insists, is not an idea, "not a banner for human ideas and intentions. For many people Christianity is a kind of moral, religious and political idea, against what they call an atheistic idea...
Both the Right and the Left in America have their own memories about the period of flirtation with Marx. To the Right, it has become the decade of treason, when Americans ate of totalitarian fruit and knew sin; the guilt and hysteria of the late '40's and early '50's extended to liberals who had never been associated with the Communist Party in the '30's, even to men who were born too late to be part of the decade of treason. Thus the weakest and least sympathetic portion of Arthur M. Schlesinger's Age of Roosevelt...
...hardly seems necessary to say that a bill requiring the dangers of communism to be taught in all Massachusetts public high schools is an insidious device, characteristic of all the best totalitarian systems. But then, it hardly seems possible that such a bill would get as far as it has in the legislative process. The State Senate passed the bill Thursday, and the House of Representatives will vote on it today or tomorrow...
...been hot. In an attack on Menon, Kripalani said: "I charge him with wasting the money of a poor starving nation. I charge him with the neglect of the defense of the country against the aggression of Communist China. I charge him with having lent his support to totalitarian regimes against the will of the people." Kripalani supporters have circulated a pamphlet titled "Krishna Menon-Danger to India" that calls Menon a "crypto-Communist...