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Anti-authoritarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as "concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people" or the doctrine that advocates such absolutism in rule, as in autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism. Anti-authoritarian also refers to those who reject the authoritarian nature nation-states and of capitalism because of what they see as its coercive actions, top-down boss/worker relations, and exploitative nature. Anti-authoritarian can also be another term for anarchist, or for those who agree with the anti-capitalist, non-hierarchial, and anti-statist ideals of anarchism, but reject the label anarchist. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-authoritarianism   (161 words)

ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM: AN INDICATOR OF PATHOLOGY The descriptions of the authoritarian personality which were developed by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson and Sanford in their 1950 report of the research arising out of studies of ethnocentrism, anti-semitism and conservatism carried strong evaluative suggestions concerning those who scored highly on the F-Scale (Potentiality for Fascism). This evidence is held to support Rudin's argument that rational and irrational authoritarianism (as exemplified by the F-scale) are independent, and that pathology is related to rejection of the former as well as acceptance of the latter. The entitlement of the Rudin negative scale to the description of "rational authoritarianism" therefore seems to rest on some empirical foundation, apart from the purely conceptual argument that it cannot be rational to reject all authority. jonjayray.tripod.com /rudin.html   (3778 words)

Researchers Study Male Anti-Homosexual Attitudes In addition, he observes that researchers have analyzed Right Wing Authoritarianism as a factor in anti-homosexual attitudes, with religious fundamentalism and Christian Orthodoxy as being closely associated with right-wing beliefs. His purpose was to measure the Gender Belief System (GBS) and Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) as a source of anti-homosexual attitudes in these heterosexual males. Right Wing Authoritarianism, says Wilkinson, is characterized by a demand that individuals submit to authorities and social norms, and involves hostility toward groups that refuse to conform to societal norms. www.narth.com /docs/researchers.html   (467 words)

Anti-authoritarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, which is defined as "concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people" or the doctrine that advocates such absolutism in rule, as in autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, and totalitarianism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-authoritarian   (81 words)

ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM: AN INDICATOR OF PATHOLOGY The descriptions of the authoritarian personality which were developed by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson and Sanford in their 1950 report of the research arising out of studies of ethnocentrism, anti-semitism and conservatism carried strong evaluative suggestions concerning those who scored highly on the F-Scale (Potentiality for Fascism). This evidence is held to support Rudin's argument that rational and irrational authoritarianism (as exemplified by the F-scale) are independent, and that pathology is related to rejection of the former as well as acceptance of the latter. The entitlement of the Rudin negative scale to the description of "rational authoritarianism" therefore seems to rest on some empirical foundation, apart from the purely conceptual argument that it cannot be rational to reject all authority. jonjayray.netfirms.com /rudin.html   (3807 words)

Psychology Today: Enemies of Freedom: Understanding Right Wing Authoritarianism. - book reviews Isn't the very act of controlling authoritarianism in itself an authoritarian gesture" Altemeyer clearly has the best of intentions and seems to be a genuinely nice guy-- this dense work is lightened considerably by a friendly and colloquial tone. Eight years (with four more to go) of conservatism, of the religious right, of burgeoning racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism, of occasional bizarre eruptions from groups like the Posse Comitatus, have given all of us a vision of a society populated by a few charismatic individuals and thousands of obedient ideologues. How can we control authoritarianism in a democratic society?" He says that He can see "vast potential" for rightwing authoritarian rule in the United States and Canada. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n2_v23/ai_7400245   (423 words)

Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East These views are common in Iraq, where references to "al-Yahud", or "the Jews", are made everywhere and they demonstrate the degree to which the outside world is misunderstood and feared by Iraqis whose views were shaped by years of authoritarianism, control and fear, with little access to information not dictated by Ba'athist or religious sources. In the Christian West, this led to anti-Semitism, the belief that Jews are a race or nation to be disparaged. Judaism was a stain that could not be removed by mere conversion. www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EK26Ak02.html   (2054 words)

auth.txt Altemeyer's basic idea: Authoritarianism is a personality dimension consisting of three covarying components 1. Sex These traits can be measured by means of the F-scale Good correlations between F scores and measures of anti-semitism and anti-Negro prejudice Assumed that authoritarians are suceptible to authoritarian ideologies (no direct support for this) How does the authoritarian personality develop? Authoritarian aggression The other elements were dropped because of lack of evidence. people.cs.uct.ac.za /~dnunez/psy203s/auth.txt   (439 words)

New Russia's New Leaders That is why it is only an assumption of anti-Soviet, anti-Communist and bourgeois ideologists that socialism would have survived if there would have been Bukharin in the Soviet Union, Tito in Yugoslavia and that the uncompromising course of Stalin caused the defeat of socialism towards the 90s. Other bourgeois groups are needed to raise the banner of authoritarianism and dictatorship. This whole process continued in the name of anti - Stalinism - attacking Stalin as leader of the party and the government in the most productive period in the history of the Soviet Union. www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv1n1/newlead.htm   (439 words)

Libertarian Socialism The basic socialistic libertarian movement has it's roots at least as far back as the French Revolution of 1789 in the poor serfs who saw through the authoritarianism of the Jacobins (and the bourgeoisie in general) who had used these serfs to overthrow the first and second estate. Since capitalism's early beginnings in Europe, and it's authoritarian trend of wage-slavery for the majority of people (working class) by a smaller, elite group (a ruling, or, capitalist class) who own the "means of production": machines, land, factories, there was a liberatory movement in response to capitalism known as "Socialism". Libertarian Socialism recognizes that the concept of "property" (specifically, the means of production, factories, land used for profit, rented space) is theft and that in a truly libertarian society, the individual would be free of exploitation caused by the concentration of all means of wealth-making into the hands of an elite minority of capitalists. www.spunk.org /library/intro/sp001631.html   (1985 words)

Social dominance orientation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia SDO correlates with Right Wing Authoritarian and together they predict to varying degrees many forms of prejudicial attitudes, such as sexist, racist and anti-homosexual attitudes. SDO is commonly deployed with the Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale. Altemeyer's research suggested that high SDO scorers were competitive on a personal level (agreeing with items such as "Winning is more important than how you play the game") and were also quite Machiavellian (manipulative and amoral) agreeing with items such as "There really is no such thing as 'right and wrong'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_dominance_orientation   (796 words)

Mormon Stereotypes in Popular Fiction Most Mormon critics, however, now operate under the assumption that the nineteenth-century outpouring of anti-Mormon novels was something unique to that period--something that could not happen again because of the great strides the Church has made towards the American mainstream. the trope of the Mormon conspiracy, the trope of the blood-atonement murder, and the trope of the hostage maiden. Each is used to describe the Mormons of the past in Westerns and historical romances, the Mormons of the present in detective fiction and true-crime literature, and the Mormons of the future in science-fiction novels and other forms of speculative fiction. www.adherents.com /lit/austin_lds_poplit.html   (6395 words)

Anti-Capitalism / - Newswire - Indymedia Ireland Anarchists are usually pretty good at listing the things we are against: capitalism, racism, religious sectarianism, authoritarianism and so on. Values such as political freedom, capitalism, individualism, democracy, scientific inquiry, rationalism, and open debate form an especially lethal combination when applied to warfare. Its important that we make as many links as possible so we can show that this campaign is not isolated that its part of a worldwide struggle against capitalism, a struggle against the profits of big business always being put before the needs of communities. www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?topic=anticapitalism   (1928 words)

May Day Anti-Authoritarian Contingent : LA IMC We’re united against capitalism, imperialism, authoritarianism and all its forms of degradation and bondage. We realize that all forms of oppression are a result and stem from the systems of capitalism and imperialism. la.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=125434   (620 words)

Radical forum at D.C. anti-capitalist protest Their success shows that there is a strong drive within people to talk about the questions facing anyone who wants to abolish capitalism and authoritarianism. Where is the movement going?" open forums in DC during national mobilizations since 2001. www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2002/November/DC_Nov02.htm   (561 words)

Anti-Authoritarian Films Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) Can be taken as red scare propaganda or as a warning against the authoritarianism and mind-numbing conformity of the McCarthy era. In Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phil Kaufman, 1978), the first remake, global pollution is the enemy. Review by John Sayles, in Mother Jones, 1996" www.changesurfer.com /Acad/Films/Anti.html   (2253 words)

List of Isms ableism, abolitionism, absenteeism, moral absolutism, political absolutism, abstract expressionism, activism, adoptionism, adultism, Afrocentrism, ageism, agnosticism, agrarianism, alarmism, Albigensianism, albinism, alcoholism, altruism, Americanism, anarchism, Anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-syndicalism, aneurysm or aneurism, Anglicanism, animalism, animal magnetism, animism, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism, anti-abolitionism, antidisestablishmentarianism, anti-Semitism, Apollinarism, Arianism, Aristotelianismianism, atheism, Augustinism, authoritarianism, autism www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_isms.html   (2253 words)

Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science Efforts to explain virulent anti-Semitism focused on the concept of authoritarianism, and a measure of authoritarianism called the "F-scale" came to be perhaps the most used such instrument in all of personality research. Authoritarianism was thought to be related to general prejudice and ethnocentrism as well as to certain lifestyles and belief systems. The term authoritarianism became one of the most famous in social psychology through a huge research effort on the part of T. Adorno and others (1950) after World War II that focused on explaining how the German people could have allowed and participated in the Holocaust that killed over 6 million Jews. www.hartfordinstitute.org /ency/Authoritarianism.htm   (319 words)

Psychology Today: Enemies of Freedom: Understanding Right Wing Authoritarianism. - book reviews His extensive chapter on the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism and religion eventually concludes that "authoritarians in my samples tend to be religious persons and vice versa." For Altemeyer, religious people are clearly the followers of Jimmy Swaggart, not the Catholic workers or disciples of Martin Luther King Jr. Isn't the very act of controlling authoritarianism in itself an authoritarian gesture" Altemeyer clearly has the best of intentions and seems to be a genuinely nice guy-- this dense work is lightened considerably by a friendly and colloquial tone. But what draws some people to right-wing authoritarianism? www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n2_v23/ai_7400245   (1181 words)

PoliticalJuice.com: Mormonism and Politics Mormons in America made a significant swing to the Republican party during the 1960s and '70s, largely as a response to the growing issue of abortion and as a morally conservative response to the morally liberal, free-loving drug culture of the hippie/anti-war movement. To unpack it, to demythologize it, to deconstruct it. It is my intention to suggest that Mormons ought to at least think critically about their current political leanings and loyalties, by the light of their own Mormonism, rather than simply embracing a general conservatism based primarily on the two specific issues of abortion and gay marriage. www.politicaljuice.com /mormonism_and_politics   (17493 words)

Arundhati Roy's anti-authoritarian politics : Melbourne Indymedia Thursday November 04, 2004 at 04:35 PM Marxist authoritarianism in India Thursday November 04, 2004 at 04:11 PM Melbourne Indymedia is a website produced by grassroots media makers offering non-corporate coverage of struggles, actions and celebrations. Thursday November 04, 2004 at 05:23 PM You can't tell much about people by what they call themselves melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2003/04/46834.php   (664 words)

DC Indymedia: Post Concert Anti-authoritarian March without allowing authoritarianism, crazy violent yahoos, lifestylists or fucked up utopian bullshit to ruin everything. dc.indymedia.org /newswire/display/115237/index.php   (4157 words)

Books about Religious Conservatism in the United States Dallas A. Blanchard, The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Rise of the Religious Right: From Polite to Fiery Protest, Twayne, 1994. Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right: The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment, Pantheon, 1980. Duane Murray Oldfield, The Right and the Righteous: The Christian Right Confronts the Republican Party, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/right.html   (8575 words)

HAN: Bibliography Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea: Japanese - South Korean Relations under the American Occupation, 1945-1952I. Economic Control and Political Authoritarianism: The Role of Japanese Corporations in Korean Politics, 1965-1979. Japanese Capitalism and the Korean Minority in Japan: Class, Race, and Racism. www.han.org /a/biblio-e.html   (859 words)

CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background Current issues include: alleviating widespread poverty, preventing terrorism, continuing the transition to popularly-elected governments after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing reforms of the banking sector, addressing charges of cronyism and corruption, holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations, and resolving armed separatist movements in Aceh and Papua. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism for its activities in Lebanon and elsewhere in the world and remains subject to US economic sanctions and export controls because of its continued involvement. www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

Relationship between Christian Religion and anti-Semitism Using the concept 'breadth of perspective' to explain the correlation between Christian religion and religious and secular anti-Semitism results in a much more parsimonious explanation than using localism, authoritarianism, and conformism separately. The non-religious factors localism, authoritarianism or dogmatism, and conformism have often been shown to be positively correlated to both Christian beliefs and religious and secular anti-Semitism (e.g., Adorno et al. A narrow perspective on social reality was measured using four localism items derived from Roof (1974, 1978), six authoritarianism items derived from Adorno et al. baserv.uci.kun.nl /~rkonig/christian_religion_antisemitism   (16146 words)

NCSJ - Anti-Semitic Russian Letter Resurfaces Chlenov, who believed the Duma members were encouraged to publish their anti-Semitic letter by the authoritarian climate created by Putin, said: “The reality is that there is no consensus in the Jewish community on the issue of authoritarianism, yet there definitely is a consensus on anti-Semitism. The letter claims that Jews themselves are responsible for fomenting ethnic strife, including the perpetration of anti-Semitic attacks against the Jewish community. The letter accuses Jews of fomenting ethnic hatred and provoking anti-Semitism. www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/012505_Duma.shtml   (7156 words)

Southern African Anarchist-Communist Federation Founded NEFAC b) externally, a commitment to workers' self-management and direct action, and to libertarian revolutionary anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-sexism and anti-statism. This syndicalist tradition was revived by the likes of Rick Turner - murdered by a clandestine state death-squad in 1978 - and played a key role in worker militancy during the upsurge of the trade union movement in the struggle against apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s. We will be electing an acting international secretary and an acting regional secretary as well as a working group to draw up a draft final constitution. nefac.net /node/421   (7156 words)

Front groups subvert anti-war movement That has been an historical downfall of radical social movements, as seen most tragically in Spain in the 1930s when the Popular Front ideology allowed Stalinists to come in the guise of anti-fascism while at the same time murdering many revolutionaries attempting to create a totally new society. A growing debate in the anti-war movement today is about front groups--political organizations or "coalitions" that arise from other organizations, but with the relationship hidden. This is done for many reasons, and they all reek of vanguardism, authoritarianism, and counter-revolution. www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2003/March/youth_Mar03.htm   (7156 words)

Amazon.com: Vichy in the Tropics: Petain's National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44: Books: Eric T. Jennings Jennings demonstrates the points made by Paxton, namely, that the Vichy government, in the metropole and in the colonies went beyond what the Germans required in terms of anti Semitism, ultra conservatism, authoritarianism and anti republicanism and formulated policies and practices that were anti Masonic, anti Communistic and ardently Catholic. Prior to the coming of the Vichy government, colonial administrators, particulary in Guadeloupe advocated assimilation and officially per pounded ideas of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." In Madagascar and Indochina the colonies could anticipate at best an association with France. But at heart of the colonial empire, even before the Vichy government, was a belief in Social Darwinism that saw the indigenous people of the colonies as proper subjects for domination, not citizens of France. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804750475?v=glance   (1217 words)

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