Word: dictatorship
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...Czarist state, to smash it, and to provide a substitute." But here Nenni runs into the dilemma of all Marxists: Once terror is accepted as a legitimate arm of government, how is it brought under control? The whole trouble, admits Nenni sadly, stems directly from the notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
Cries of "guillotine" and "dictatorship" rang through the chamber as Howe made his closure notice. It meant that all speeches were cut to 20 minutes and that the entire debate on the bill's first reading would be ruthlessly shut off at 1 o'clock the following morning. With angry arguments over procedure, the opposition managed to prolong the debate until 4:42 a.m., but in the end the inevitable happened: the massive Liberal majority steamrollered the measure through...
...turned out that what my family said was true-about the cruelty of secret police investigations and about the dictatorship of Stalin. It has turned out that history was really forged. And I? I do no know how to change my soul for the fourth time without fear that it will become...
...take part in an army revolt against Chile's first reform-minded liberal President, Arturo Alessandri. Making himself dictator, he borrowed $300 million abroad, touched off a period of prosperity, then saw his regime collapse in 1931 with the Depression. The experience soured Chile on dictatorship, but did not discourage Ibáñez. He tried three more revolutions, including a 1939 Putsch copied after that of the Nazis. All failed, and Ibáñez finally decided, in 1952, to try the ballot box. His lonely, military stiffness, his speeches barked out like parade-ground orders...
...abrupt change from familiar controls to chancy freedom might be no great trick for a South American dictatorship, ruled by decree; but in democratic Chile the reform is going ahead by vote of Congress, which is convinced that austerity is what the people want. One politico, who at first opposed the change, admitted last week, "We underestimated the civic conscience of our people...