Sentences with phrase «banovich about communism»

Right - wing paranoia about communism and civil - rights activism was abroad in the land, and this paranoia had turned the city of Dallas into a seething political madhouse.

The answer, I think, is to be found in another important volume about communism: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet (see the discussion by Brian C. Anderson elsewhere in this issue).

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

You think she is talking about today and the consequences of the sexual revolution — after all this is the book's topic — but she ends up talking about communism and the cold war, current dietary restrictions and food obsessions, and the historically prior widespread popular acceptance of smoking tobacco (primarily cigarettes).

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

Sokolovsky told Russian media that his proposed punishment far exceeds the crime and that his treatment hearkens back to Joseph Stalin joking about communism.

The loaves and fishes story is not about magic, it's about communism.

I quite easily found the answer about Fascism but didn't find any convincing information about communism.

Talk about communism and capitalism would just make this another Cold War play, but ideology barely enters the frame.

Any message or deeper insights (mostly about communism and religion) fly under the radar, as the movie goes from one parody of old Hollywood film to another, but if you aren't a fan of TCM, this movie might not be your cup of tea.

The film is apparently an allegory about communism in Czechoslovakia.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

I had basically left - wing sympathies but, I don't know, as someone said about communism: great idea, wrong species!

Featuring my work entitled, Kimjongilias, please check out our group exhibition curated by Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich about communism and artists» relationship to power.

Stephan Segrest: In the US, in the 1970s, liberals (both Republican and Democrat) complained that conservatives were wrong about communism.

Not exact matches

In other news, there was just a story about a Tibetan artist that was tortured by Chinese police for opposing their atheistic communism.

And what about christian communism, especially as was practiced in Plymouth, MA?

Many had said that communism lacked popular support; few realized what pent - up resentment would boil forth once people were free to speak about the tyranny of the past half - century and more.

but think about it just a couple of examples of the top of my head — The French revolution and Russian communism.

The second economic system, that of communism, is also unrealistic about human nature, but in a different way.

The story involves spies, skullduggery, and Cold War domestic politics, but mostly it is about people who clearly understood the evil of communism and did something about it.

Today teachers of prophecy talk about satellite communication, space travel, television, world communism, the breakdown of the family and of church authority, abortion and the re-establishment of Israel's nationhood as all pointing to that return.

That kind of progress is what socialism, communism or dictatorships are all about.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

And only our radicals didn't learn a lot from what we've found out over the last generation about horribly monstrous and massively murderous communism really was.

However, if we look at the facts, we study the ideology of communism and the actions taken by these men it was all about taking out a threat to their power.

Fowden's conceptual framework provides interesting perspectives for thinking about why communism could not come to the aid of the Soviet Empire to produce either a world empire or a successor commonwealth.

Yes, but the blindness to the evils of communism on the religious left was persistent, systematic, and unaltered by massive available evidence about the horrors being perpetrated.

However atheism has brought about things like communism and evolutionism which is also Total stupidity.

John Paul II's approach to east central Europe was based on different premises: that the post-war division of Europe was immoral and historically artificial; that communist violations of basic human rights had to be named for what they were; and that the «captive nations» could eventually find tools of resistance that communism could not match, if they reclaimed the religious, moral, and cultural truth about themselves and lived those truths without fear.

In particular, this means that we should distinguish between communism and the many efforts to bring about deep social changes which actually are an essential antidote to communism.

Not Marxism qua Marxism but you have to understand that what Jesus taught us about living in this world shares a a lot with some of the ideals of communism.

People are afraid of being considered soft on communism if they raise serious questions about national attitudes and policies in the Cold War.

And it's not about what christianity goes with that I am concerned about — unless you think that communism goes with anything too.

Like most European church leaders at the time, Pius XII worried about the threat of communism and viewed himself as a mediator for peace.

He talks about what we do when communism has died and one can not be a Catholic in Italy — what did the refugees do at night?

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

We know that communism was a theology, a church militant, with sacred texts and with saints and martyrs and prophets, with doctrines about the nature of the world and of humankind, with immutable laws and millennial visions and life - pervading judgments about the nature of good and evil.

To say that God is the Lord when Sennacherib is about to enslave you and put out your eyes is to say something of real significance; Similarly today, we have to ask whether technics, happiness, the state, money, or communism (our modern Sennacheribs) must be called the Lord or (there can be no question of an «and») whether Jesus Christ is Lord.

Despite all his great scholarly works, and his political achievements in helping to bring about the fall of communism, John Paul II gave an instant response when once asked how he would like posterity to remember him: as the Pope of the family.

The decline of Western Europe's world position, the rise of existentialist philosophies and moods, the Western «return to religion,» the rise of communism, and the resurgence of Eastern civilizations on a religious base, have all conspired to bring about this new situation, wherein the secular intellectual, like the religious believer, takes his place as a member of one group of men, one of the world's communities, looking out upon the others.

In an introductory note, Mahoney issues a simple appeal to «take Solzhenitsyn seriously» now that we know more about the inner workings of communism.

Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually called secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic humanism.

I acknowledge that one of the most off - putting things about Labour, for me, is that the loudest, most strident voices seem to emanate from a hard - line atheist worldview which I associate with communism.

Two of the countries Americans are most concerned about are still aligned with communism.

Asked about Cuban communism, Garcia Márquez once told The New York Times that, while he admired the system and was a personal friend of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, he personally could never live under it.

While I do not want to assert that all communism is Marxist, I will be talking about Marxism because I deem it to be the most developed communist theory.

The US were concerned about a communist revolution in Japan, so they (or possibly the Japanese themselves, I'm not sure on this point) initially censored some war crimes such as the Nanking massacre for fear that it would provoke sympathy among the Japanese for communism.

For all the right - wing hysterics about the Affordable Care Act being radical communism, the health care reform law is awfully similar to the reform package adopted in Massachusetts, as part of an agreement between Romney and Democratic state lawmakers.

He also asked about comments she made that likened acceptance of climate change science to a «kind of paganism» and suggested that top United Nations climate policy advocates were effectively supporting communism.