Word: totalitarianisms
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...Palestinian uprising is now 18 months old. It is a stain on a country whose existence is grounded in protection against totalitarian abuse. If the case for "Rage" is right, then we could all learn something from the public viewing of the film...
...have accomplished a number of things. Primarily, it would have proven that left-wing activists actually believe that freedom is more than a convenient rhetorical phrase. It also would have done a great deal to dispel the idea that the leftists are nothing but dangerous reds with a paternalistic, totalitarian ideas about controlling who hears what. If the left wants America or Harvard to be a held to a higher standard, we must be ready to apply those higher standards to ourselves...
...course the only way for the Soviets to maintain their military buildup at the expense of their own peoples standard of living was to erect a totalitarian system. This system ultimately wasted more precious Soviet resources for the upkeep of a massive and unproductive surveillance state which further debilitated Soviet capacities...
Even more important, as Moscow has recently discovered, the totalitarian solution cannot work indefinitely. Sooner or later the sacrifice of individuals standards of living leads to domestic problems: low work incentives, low labor productivity, economic stagnation and eventually, as events prove, domestic turmoil...
...Havel has been sentenced to jail, trials moved into a second month for other activists held on charges ranging from organizing peaceful antigovernment demonstrations to signing political petitions. And in Stalinist Rumania, party leader Nicolae Ceausescu remains the "Idi Amin of Communism," as his neighbors call him. The unregenerate totalitarian, obsessed with stamping his personal mark on the physiology and psychology of his country, brooks no opposition. When six retired high-ranking officials released a letter harshly condemning his brutally repressive regime, Ceausescu arrested the son of one of the signatories on spying charges and ordered a nationwide security alert...