Migranian and I initiated a long discussion over whether we, like many other countries, are fated to go through a period of authoritarian government during the transition to a modern market economy. It has also transpired that some people (as a rule from the ranks of the most radical ...
While they differ individually, totalitarian states have several characteristics in common. The two most notable characteristics shared by all totalitarian states are an overarching ideology addressing all aspects of life as the means of attaining the state’s final goal, and a single, all-powerful p...
What defines an absolute monarchy? In an absolute monarchy, the monarch has complete control over the government and laws, with no legal limitations on their power. 6 Is nationalism important in both monarchy and fascism? While both can emphasize national identity, fascism uses aggressive nationalism...
” as Mr. Obama recalled in his latest memoir. Even Donald Trump — whose administration assassinated Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran in 2020 — made at least eight requests to meet with President Hassan Rouhani, according to an Iranian...
But under an authoritarian regime, whose stories get told is strictly controlled—which is the very beauty of this collection. Nepal Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay (Soho Press, 2017) Buy Now: bookshop.org “Like a Buddhist Chekhov,” crowed the San Francisco Chronicle, Nepali-born fiction ...
The dictionary defines a ‘transition’ generally as a passage. The word originated with the Latin ‘transire’ (go over). 2. See Mihr (2021), p. 1; Teitel (2003), p. 69. For a more nuanced view, see Posner and Vermeule (2003), pp. 762, 768 (‘a political and economic transit...
Opposition is a broader term for any form of dissent or disagreement, whereas resistance specifically implies an act of defying or combatting an influence or force.
Kate Winslet stars as the leader of an authoritarian Central European nation that begins to crumble behind the walls of the palace in“The Regime”(Max, March 3), a limited series co-starring Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant and directed in part by Oscar-nominated ...
The State attributed to itself the successes of the vaccination campaign and hard lockdown, while framing any failures a result of the action of individuals and successively, imputing to the anti-vaxxers and the conspiratorial thinking that largely defines and influences their position, all criticism...
(while often hating their job) the actual process of resistance to the development of capitalism indicates well its inherently authoritarian nature and that people were not inclined to accept it as "economic freedom." Only once other options were closed off and capitalists given an edge in the ...