Word: dictatorship
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...effect of the Mundt bill is to lump together actual subversives (of whom few have turned up), idealistic radicals, and people who join sundry "leftist" groups for sundry reasons. The latter two are useful parts of society; the quickest way to bring on a "totalitarian dictatorship" is to suppress criticism from either the right or left...
Before a gathering of 50 people in Harvard 1, Lamont predicted that Americans are going to be surprised by the news of the peaceful purposes for which Russia will use the atom bomb. He explained that political dictatorship in the Soviet Union is only a transitional step towards a socialist democracy...
This legislation opens with a "working definition" of the world Communist movement "whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups, espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a Communist totalitarian dictatorship in all the countries of the world...
...anyone who transmits "classified" material to foreign agents or members of "Communist organizations," the other levelling the same penalties against anyone who "knowingly combines, conspires, or agrees with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of any foreign government, foreign organization, or foreign individual...
...also attempts to show that these tensions and disagreements underlie the success of a political system that is logically and ideally impossible, but has endured for a century and a half in which the other nations of the world have run the gamut of political change from anarchy to dictatorship in unending succession...