Word: totalitarianism
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...statement, that Germany's Nazi past obliges the government "to monitor the development of any extreme groups within its borders - even when the group's members are small in number." Speaking to reporters last week, Ralf Stegner, the interior minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, called Scientology a "totalitarian" organization. "They want to break people's will," he said. "That's why we have to fight them." Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble, however, has yet to tip his hand on how he might respond to the states' initiative. His ministry has said that the group is unconstitutional...
...Chavez’s “power grab” ; a few days earlier, our very own paper relayed economist Ricardo Hausman’s call for continued “vigilance” against Chavez’s plan to “creat[e] a totalitarian state.” Regardless of their prominence, we must not let ourselves be distracted by the intransigent partisanship of these establishment intellects. When it comes to the newly-invigorated Latin American left, it is urgent that jaundiced propaganda be separated from fact: In the Venezuelan example, even while certain criticisms...
...Every Harvard class has its ultra-popular John F. Kennedy ’40 and its budding mogul Steven A. Ballmer ’77, but a man who tapes a giant poster of an eye in his Canaday common room window and threatens passersby via bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league of his own. “Two of the very first things he did were tell me that he had an army of cut-out penguins, and send me a copy of his newly-created manifesto,” said Hwang’s freshman...
...think we have to keep being vigilant,” Hausmann said in an interview yesterday. “He didn’t get the votes last night, but he announced that he was not abandoning his plan—and his plan is the creation of this totalitarian state.” Since coming to power, Chavez, who vaulted into the public eye by leading a military coup against the government in 1992, has used the country’s oil wealth to fund relief programs for the poor. In the process, he has centralized power...
...collective interest predominate over individual interests," says Haiman El Troudi, director of the Miranda Center in Caracas, a policy research think tank set up by the government. "But if our agenda were Stalinist we would have imposed it by now. Instead we're subjecting these reforms to an election - totalitarian states don't do that." Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S., concurs: "We're trying to create institutionality in Latin America precisely because its present institutions don't function." As for unlimited presidential re-election, Alvarez notes that Chvez will still be subject to elections to remain...