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obviate

To break the polity into factions would obviate the idea that the freedom struggle had united the people with one interest, to create a nation against imperialism.

—p.128 Algiers (119) by Vijay Prashad
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autogestion

The architects of the self-management schemes had good ideas, but they were not the ones to execute and oversee the self-management (autoges­tion) project.

—p.125 Algiers (119) by Vijay Prashad
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fiat

The president could rule by fiat, a structure that welcomed a coup d' etat because this alone could change the reins of gov­ernment in a society that had been substantially depoliticized.

—p.124 Algiers (119) by Vijay Prashad
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abjure

The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

—p.96 Belgrade (95) by Vijay Prashad
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involuted

because his was not an involuted na­tionalism, he translated work from French and Russian letters

—p.89 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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