Word: repression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ridden with internal contradictions, which only become more intensive as the pace of revolutionary change increases. The old ruling class will never surrender its dominance without a struggle; to think otherwise is wishful dreaming. Best to seize control of the state or another instrument of violence and repress the right before it has a chance to move against socialism...
From April 30, 1945, when he returned to Germany from the Soviet Union (where he had spent the war years), Ulbricht was Moscow's man. Tireless and ruthless, he copied much of the repressive Soviet system. As head of the German Democratic Republic, he stamped out all political opposition, attempted to repress religion, and introduced a Stalinist-style censorship of all publications, broadcasts and literature. East German schools became Marxist indoctrination centers...
...being bound by ties with Washington, and they could leave Thompson--the best thing they'd ever had--with a completely free hand. He ran wild with it--interviewing George McGovern at a urinal, throwing objectivity out the window, junking any semblance of "off-the-record," refusing to repress an obvious bias (pro-McGovern), and drawing no line at the point where the facts ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals...
...time when the Nixon administration is intimidating the media. Yet Mr. Bell's argument would be ominous under any circumstances. He does not take art seriously; he does not take freedom seriously; what he takes seriously is a vaguely defined concept of "social health," which in practice means the repression of what our rulers wish to repress and the encouragement of what they wish to encourage...
What these naval officers, Hebert, and even Zumwalt fail to understand is that a ship at sea is not isolated, not immune to conflicts originated in Newark or Baton Rouge. Instead, human relations are intensified, conflicts blown out of proportion. Discipline may repress the discussion, official commands may alter the symptoms, but the underlying problems remain...