Word: totalitarian
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...register my protest at the extreme bias and double-standards applied by the American media to the Azerbaijani cause. While we deplore suppression of "freedom" and "civil rights" in Eastern Europe, China and other non-Muslim parts of the world, and while we actively encourage "freedom-fighters" against totalitarian regimes wherever they may be, we draw the line when it comes to Muslim people anywhere demanding these same rights of self-determination...
...problem is not the surface abrasiveness. The problem is that down deep he is a totalitarian personality...
...totalitarian "PW"--not PC--ideology that is enforced at Harvard. Recently several gay men were arrested at the Science Center bathroom on charges of "obscenity" Yet when a woman was gang raped at the Pi Eta Club two summers ago, what happened? What legal action did the Harvard administration take to investigate the woman's charge of "obscenity"? The privacy of gay men was invaded in the name of protecting the interests of the "majority". Yet when a women was attacked in the Law School parking lot last year, what happened? Did Harvard employ new measure to protect the safety...
What might be called Perestroika I has failed. The main reason: despite the ministrations and exhortations of its reformist rulers, the Soviet Union still has a command economy and a totalitarian political system. Managers instinctively wait for orders from above; regional leaders still look to Moscow; and everyone looks to the party, to that body that met and argued and finally bent to Gorbachev's will in Moscow last week: the Central Committee. The very word center has connotations in Russian with which Gorbachev is doing battle as he prepares for his next five years, for Perestroika...
...Communism is strong only until it tries to reform. Even so, it had no choice but to try reform because its internal crisis was so explosive. Communism cannot be changed. Communists may change, but not communism. Without a totalitarian ideology, this system cannot exist. It must have absolute "truths...