Word: totalitarianism
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Alluding to the professor's statement that it is "the duty of citizens to cooperate in government," Leopold Kohr, assistant professor of Economics at Rutgers, extended this conclusion and alleged that in a totalitarian state this would enslave the individual. "The characteristic feature of democracy," he said, "is not cooperation but opposition which in the eyes of government always looks like obstruction...
...government." Since the authors do not qualify the statement, I assume this duty to apply to all government and all conditions. If we would have a communist government tomorrow, our new leaders would find such an interpretation of the citizen's duty very handy, and so would any totalitarian government. This is why we should not be surprised to find both nazis and communists proposing international agreements and laws making non-cooperation in government an offense to be prosecuted not only by the home state of the citizen but also by the host state into which he may have escaped...
...free nations as the only alternative outcomes of this conflict. I believe we can and will avoid an atomic global holocaust and given time, courage and patience, that the tradition of dissent and freedom will prove to be a better guide for a heavily industrialized society than totalitarian communism." ... The next ten years, if they bring neither World War II nor peace will be in a sense a continuation of that long period of trial for the university tradition which started when Hitler came to power in Germany...
After the last bitter defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco war (1932-35), Bolivians took up ideas of social revolution from both right & left. Marxist socialism penetrated the universities. Officers of the defeated army organized totalitarian dictatorships. One dictator, pro-Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company...
...Germany, and let us remember that the return of nationalist elements onto the public scene is a consequence of American pressure for German rearmament. Perhaps there is a better way of combating the "Nazi Rebirth" than the one of ignorance and misrepresentation. Why not use a weapon that no totalitarian system can afford to use the truth? F. W. Sehulenburg...