POSC 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meritocracy
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Calhoun - neither gods nor emperors, chapter 7. They want their ideas to be taken seriously: ending corruption, sense of patriotism, goals of the students and the government: Government, extreme: total repression, eliminate moderates, editorial of april. 26th, violence, propaganda, the government was not united so to successfully clear the square they had to purge the moderates. In order to reign power he had to choose the extremes because he can still maintain power. Government mod: clear the square get the students off, gradual reform may have happened but not on a total anarchy way. Students extreme: both wanted democracy, they wanted their dialogued to gradual reform, revolution, hunger strike,