Word: totalitarianisms
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...thus has not succeeded in changing human (or Chinese) nature, if Maoist Man remains a vision, he has nevertheless established an amazing degree of at least surface unanimity and loyalty. The ordinary citizen can hardly do less than try to get along with the state, which in a totalitarian system like China's is the source of all rewards -and all punishment. After all, says one 30-year-old party-educated intellectual who recently fled to Hong Kong, the Chinese peasantry has always been like "the grass on the hilltop"-ready to blow with the prevailing political winds...
...Totalitarian Fantasy. Naturally, Jones fails to note that Allah and Egypt's gods were divine sanctions for slave societies, and that many of the distinguished mortals he names learned their politics from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. But why complicate the issue and disrupt Jones' totalitarian fantasies about white evil and righteous black revenge? At certain levels of his struggle to spread black cultural consciousness, hyperbole and distortion may be necessary. Jones' energetic campaigning for Kenneth Gibson, Newark's first black mayor, indicates that he is well aware of the ways in which real...
...opposition of Kissinger's most eminent colleagues. But within government and Washington society, one of Kissinger's most potent weapons is a widespread impression that Harvard really doesn't want him back, that academia is discriminating against him because of his policy, that Harvard's faculty is as totalitarian as the enemy...
...decent interval" approach would yield startling insight into Kissinger's later policy recommendations on the war. To begin with, the Saigon regime was not being defended out of any real sense of principle. Kissinger was willing and eager to uphold a corrupt totalitarian government with the most brutal possible methods for the mere sake of diplomatic gain. Thousands of lives could be sacrificed and whole civilizations destroyed in the name of opposing a takeover which Kissinger had earlier been prepared-and was probably still prepared-to accept...
...regimes which Nixon and Kissinger seek to defend in Southeast Asia are among the most cruel and totalitarian in the world. Their leaders imprison their political enemies, commit indiscriminate murder, and impose a rule of terror and dictatorship on their native populations. And it is not out of some perverted sense of fairness or democracy that these regimes are being defended. It is out of a harsh, brutal calculation of what an imperialist, power like the United States must do to maintain itself in the world...