She is a member of the Campaign for
Socialism which has already called on Mr Murphy to «stand aside».
Atehism most recent contributions were communism and
socialism which were total fiascos in mankind's history.
• After three months of cruel interrogation and torture of approximately seven hundred people arrested in connection with the July 20, 1944 plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo concluded in its final report: «The entire inner alienation from the ideas of National
Socialism which characterized the men of the reactionary conspiratorial circle expresses itself above all in their position on the Jewish question.
There is, for this reason, a legitimate connection between the nation and
socialism which supports rather than obstructs the international character of socialism as a force for world unity and peace.
In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify
socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.
«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of
socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.
Some how, magically,
socialism which is responsible for over 100 million deaths and untold misery in the 20th century alone, is considered the solution to the fantastic prosperity that Capitalism has brought to mankind.
This is outright
socialism which is the definition of failure.
Not exact matches
That commitment was quickly applied to economics, meaning so - called public ownership of production, distribution and exchange —
socialism —
which became a pivotal plank 20 or so years after the party emerged.
After Gillette retired from active participation in his company in 1913, (remaining president until 1931), he shifted his focus to writing books, in
which he publicized his views on utopian
socialism.
Friedrich Hayek once said «
socialism can only be put into practice by means of
which most socialists disapprove.»
One can, in defense of the sacredness of life, be suddenly in the position of executing the program of the liberal Weimar doctors,
which of course comes to pass under Nazi rule, under «national
socialism.»
There have been all sorts of calls for a «third way» between
socialism and capitalism, calls
which promise to help the poor, but by and large they have worsened conditions for the poor.
A «true believer» in the announced ideals of
socialism (
which, in critical moods, he saw only indifferently implemented), Michnik was jailed as a student protester in 1968's crisis.
The argument of
socialism's impracticality is nonsense
which can be sustained only so long as one is ignorant of the variety and complexity of the socialist tradition.
Social Christianity (
which on the whole is simple
socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (
which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (
which, while solidly thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.
We can dismiss his
socialism as an unworkable throwback, but he's doing something our political establishment can't or won't,
which is to inspire the political imaginations of middle class voters.
Together with Pastor Martin Niemöller, Barth drafted the Barmen declaration (May 1934),
which was the basis on
which the Confessing Church opposed National
Socialism and those Christians who colluded with it.
when the churches become advocates for the poor and needy,
which will soon overwhelm them, and advocate what amounts to
socialism they will be crushed by the fascists.
We have heard William Blackstone earlier in this century announcing that new modes of transportation, growing world literacy, pestilence, famine,
socialism, accumulating armaments, industrial conflict, spiritualism, Christian Science and biblical criticism were all signs of that spiritual deterioration
which heralded the immediate return of Christ.
Berry's essays on economics, technology, bioregionalism, education and planetary
socialism, many of
which are incorporated in The Dream of the Earth, provide significant insights on this point.
We see
socialism as a new social and economic order in
which workers and consumers control production and community residents control their neighborhoods, homes and school and the production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not the private profit of a few..
Behind this heresy,
which I saw penetrating into the church, there stood from the very beginning the one who soon stepped out as the far more dangerous adversary, the one hailed at the beginning — and not least by many Christians — as deliverer and savior: Hitler, himself the personification of National
Socialism.
And for that reason, one is indeed on trembling ground when one tries to make him some sort of prophet, whether it be for disbelief in a personal god, belief in some sort of non-personal god or in favor of
socialism,
which he supported but may not have understood any better than he did the street grid in Princeton.
Although undoubtedly motivated by deep Christian commitment, Nyerere's form of «African
socialism,» called Ujamaa, ruthlessly uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and, despite massive foreign aid, drove Tanzania into a beggary from
which it has never recovered.
Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time
which has taken shape at the hands of National
Socialism?.
And this isn't Marxism but
socialism that he's professing; neither of
which serves the most people the best.
As they are at present organized and governed, there is nothing that capitalism can do for them — and
socialism, to
which most have resorted, merely compounds their problems.
In practice, however,
socialism means ownership by the state,
which may or may not represent the people.
MW:
Socialism: a way of organizing a society in
which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
Therefore, if we as Christians are going to work to improve the systems in
which people live — as indeed we must — then we need to avoid promoting or condemning capitalism or
socialism as such.
There are two principal types of
socialism: «full
socialism» in
which the state owns all (or the vast majority) of business and industry and controls production and marketing decisions through central planning; and «partial
socialism», in
which the state owns major businesses deemed to be essential to the national good, and / or subsidizes certain industries to save them from the impact of competition, and provides certain goods and services deemed to be essential at reduced or no cost, but still allows major sectors of the economy to operate as free enterprise capitalism.
Both types of
socialism can point to accomplishments
which include (1) a vast improvement in education and health care for the general populace, to the point where the education and medical care of the poor is in some cases better than that available to them even in advanced capitalist countries; and (2) a reduction in the disparity between the poor and the rich, through supplying goods and services to the poor and also through elimination or heavy taxation of the rich.
Socialism is the economic system in
which the means of production and distribution are owned by the state,
which decides through central planning what is to be produced and how it is to be distributed.
It provided an ideological framework within
which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of
which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and
Socialism (
which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).
In 1879, Professor Hitchcock of Union Theological Seminary, New York, wrote a book,
Socialism, in
which he attacked it as a system detrimental to America and religion.
The present German government is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), neither of
which have anything to do with
Socialism or Christianity.
George Soros in America and Jane Kelsey in New Zealand have both referred to «market fundamentalists», by
which they mean those who reject all modern forms of
socialism and government interference in economic issues, and who seek a return to the free market and private enterprise of pre-modern society.
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years
socialism has won itself a position
which makes its victory absolutely certain.17
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any
socialism of the religiously clairvoyant
which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...
Jim was proud of his Christian
Socialism and his membership of the Co-operative Movement (
which had its origins in the Rochdale Pioneers), and his ideas were rooted in the social teachings of the Catholic Church.
«In spite of certain changes in mood and language, the core of the philosophy developed by the young Marx was never changed and it is impossible to understand his concept of
socialism and his criticism of capitalism as developed in his later writings except on the basis of the concept of man
which he developed in his early writings».
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any
socialism of the religiously clairvoyant
which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...
Socialism is not causing the death of religion in America, and the death of religion will not necessarily pave the way to a rational human order in
which all human necessities are met.
But perhaps the best name for it, and one with
which Tillich himself might have been quite happy, is the phrase used by Alexander Dubcek and the heroic Czech reformers of 1968: «
Socialism with a human face.»
Socialism, Tillich emphasizes, is not merely a moralistic demand floating above the plane of history; it is that toward
which history itself, at this moment, is pointing.
Each of the pair of concepts mentioned represents an antinomy
which had been developed in Tillich's analysis of the inner conflict in
socialism due to its dependence on bourgeois presuppositions, and
which is now resolved through a better grasp of the socialist principle.
The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of
socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought
which accords with China's national circumstances.»
The historicity of the world's commonwealths have many bookmarked issues of passing away times hardly ever known of by the lands» commoners
which hold many pieces of the puzzled worldly picture frame's being as longitudinal lengths hellishly bent rhythmic variations of depraved
socialisms wants and desires.
And in fact, we can learn a lesson from its defeat in terms of the strength of capitalism as a global system,
which used all political and military means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of
socialism.