Cold War anti-communist rhetoric demanded citizens behave democratically while accepting authoritarian discipline
Evidence
These were all clichés from the arsenal of authoritarian thinking, which required, as the writer of a letter to the paper later pointed out, that `we should live in a democracy as if we were under a dictatorship’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 579
Categorization
- APHORISMS: A compact, quotable formulation of the paradox of managed democracy worth returning to.
- XREF: connects to: Anti-communist policing in West Germany extended to anyone who refused to denounce communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Post-war research framed authoritarianism as a threat to democratic civilization — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 276; Suppressing democracy trained communist elites in the skills democratic competition later needed — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 64 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anti-communist policing in West Germany extended to anyone who refused to denounce communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Post-war research framed authoritarianism as a threat to democratic civilization — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 276; Suppressing democracy trained communist elites in the skills democratic competition later needed — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 64 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Suppressing democracy trained communist elites in the skills democratic competition later needed
#complicates(0.74) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 64