Word: authoritarianism
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DIED. Carl Schmitt, 96, controversial German legal and political philosopher, sometimes called the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich, whose pro-authoritarian theories of government profoundly influenced the course of his country; in Plettenberg, West Germany. From 1929 to 1933, he provided legal and theoretical justifications for the Hindenburg government's dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal...
...percent of the student body boycotted military training classes for nine days last month. Student leaders said the government ousted Kim because he attempted to keep the university free from government pressure and because Kim was overly tolerant of growing student activism and protest against the authoritarian regime. The government claims Kim was told to step down because of evidence that he showed favoritism in the university student admissions process. The Granite Tower, Seoul...
Ginsberg: The problems are hierarchical authoritarian control, replication of everyday household artifacts and automatic replication of poetry, film and television. All of these things can happen under a communist bureaucracy or a capitalist bureaucracy. Disasters can result like Mao's great leap forward where millions starved or Union Carbide's Bhopal where hundreds of thousands were injured. When a society's hyper-mechanization moves out of the people's notice they suffer from depersonalization...
...analysis, and an intolerance of failure. As a result, & intrapreneurship seems to work best in companies like 3M that have a long tradition of encouraging employees to be independent and innovative by working in small groups. Says Wilbert Gore: "I don't know how one can take an authoritarian style of management and make it intrapreneurial...
...insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from a century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South, where over 70 percent of Afro-American lived until 1960, freedom from violence (both judicial and vigilante) on a stale experienced by no other American group save the American Indians, and Creedom from neurotic customary prejudices of a sort no White ethnic group endured whether...