Word: totalitarianisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general extension of democracy, which had resulted in non-democratic ends." In fact, what I referred to was an extension of political participation, which may be one aspect of democracy but clearly not co-extensive with it, since there can also be widespread non-democratic participation (as in totalitarian systems...
...When you're working in a totalitarian country--and Iran is a totalitarian country--you have to judge whether your effort is increasing the totalitarianism or if it is helping to open up the country," says Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development...
...pace or the methods for the nation's transition to socialism, nor does agreement truly exist yet on the fact of revolution itself. Too many Portuguese, poisoned by the years when the fascist rulers identified all proposals for reform as Communist conspiracies, still identify socialism with atheism and totalitarian government...
...difficult to escape the suspicion, especially in societies with more or less Judeo-Christian moral standards, that pornography, so often not really erotic but merely dehumanizing, can be a symptom of social disorder. Sex has often been used as a political weapon for rebellion (and is therefore suspect in totalitarian societies). Open sexuality can be seen as a sign of freedom, yet it can also run riot to the point where it becomes both destructive and compulsive and thus ultimately unfree...
...William Buckley, should Buckley thank Stalin for doing God's work?" What difference does it make? In his concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That Nixon should be regarded as a serious conservative intellectual? The muddled logic and vague implications make it hard to follow Diggins' drift...