Sentences with phrase «about capitalism as»

At a climate change meeting in La Paz last December, Hosse spoke about capitalism as the root of the rupture between humans and the environment.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

Not exact matches

Whenever I hear folks whine about the evils of capitalism and corporate America — how corporations are not people — I wish they could understand that it's not the size of an organization that matters, but how well it maintains an innovative culture as it grows.

At this week's Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City, Rauch, who also serves as CEO of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., spoke to attendees about what it takes to make a socially - conscious business profitable.

She wants to keep growing Patagonia to prove that her view of capitalism can work — that a company can achieve even more success when it thinks about future generations as shareholders alongside current investors.

As Capital Institute founder John Fullerton points out, it is very much the capitalism Adam Smith envisioned when he wrote about the invisible hand, the profit motive and self - correcting free markets.

It's amazing how many have embraced this fake revolt as a signal that American capitalism is about to turn a corner.

Here, for example, Novak reformulates his arguments about the necessary relationship between democracy and capitalism (and vice versa), as well as his location of the cause of the wealth of nations in the creative, inventive, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human mind.

The author's view of capitalism and its effects, all in all, is about as nuanced as the village atheist's view of Christianity.

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.

With the coming of television, people were further encouraged to meet the needs of capitalism: to consume without end, to use up, throw away and buy again; to repress individuality so as to not question the process which provided an endless stream of products; to seek the immediate and the sensational, changing the channel every few seconds if it did not provide immediate stimulation; and, above all, never to ask questions about the real meaning of the system itself.

Likewise, the pontiff's growing body of comments about the global evils of rampant capitalism, though drawing criticism from some, has helped the Church reclaim its role as the protector of the poor.

Of those who failed to grasp what I said about the meaning of the term «capitalism,» or who imagine I was arguing for the modern state as opposed to the modern market, David Lumpkins provides the most entertaining remarks.

As Keynes foresaw in the 1920s, the debate about progressive capitalism concerns the «agenda» and «non-agenda» of government.

The festival is as much about sticking rocket boosters under the centre ground, promoting entrepreneurialism and reforming capitalism as it is of Conservatism.

As a result most of the arguments have been about their right to protest there and not their criticisms of capitalism.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

The difference is that the unionists want to keep the proceeds for their members — and the activists don't really care where the money goes, so long as they get to spank capitalism and feel good about themselves.

Ed M described socialism as being a critique of capitalism in the opening week hustings, while making it clear that was about a social democratic intervention http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/18/new-labour-is-dead-what-counts-now-is-next-labour-115875-22266479/

«When you start talking about climate change and the need for major changes, carbon taxes and lifestyle changes, [conservatives] see this as a threat to capitalism and future prosperity,» said McCright.

The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show ruthlessness.

No one believes Liam when he starts raving about a lookalike haunting his periphery, but his radical communist - leaning son happily analyzes the rich man's crisis in line after line of overwritten dialogue: After calling Liam a «victim of internal contradictions of capitalism,» he diagnoses the doppelganger as «a projection of the part of you that you hate,» then delights in being in a «story by Kafka» when father and son go hunting for the mystery man through the vomit - strewn streets of Dublin.

But why should they when Gilroy's own film is about nothing so much as the corrosive effects crony capitalism wreaks on that heretofore - unsatirized American institution (certainly not covered more intelligently and presciently by a nearly forty - year - old film whose title rhymes with get work) of headline news?

As satires about capitalism go I'll stick with the sublimely grotesque American Psycho but The Wolf of Wall Street is not without its pleasures, most of them actor - based.

The main competition is filled with movies about the ailing world of limited means and unjust distribution of wealth, and after the bizarre and derivative allegory of labor in Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor and Amir Manor's astutely titled Epilogue, which played like Michael Haneke's Amour, only capitalism as a stand - in for death, the main competition now brings us Sylvie Michel - Casey's Our Little Differences.

Well, it means trying to push capitalists to address the suffering of the poor and the oppressed, as long as capitalism continues to operate, but we must recognize that we need to move beyond capitalism if we ever hope to bring about genuine equality and a greater unfolding of human powers and capacities.

The potential of the internet for the deepening and enhancement of democracy has been destroyed by the success of monopoly capitalism and the internet has actually contributed as much to inequality as it has to fostering equality and here I am particularly concerned about the potential of the media to aid in the surveillance of citizens and well as the propagandizing against socialist alternatives to capitalism.

Here we see Two Feathers as Rashid and the reverse — something Rashid described as a «tromp - l'oeil effect of Two Feathers without the long extensive narrative story,» presenting a rich body of work and an enticing series of questions about the same topics that haunt the Frenglish Empire — the role of influential and pejorative stereotypes, racism, capitalism, and imperialism.

Speaking Badly about Stones focuses on the socio - critical aspect of the artist's work that addresses contemporary topics such as (over) consumption, energy waste and (hyper) capitalism.

It is with this visual energy and layers of detailing that Schoultz delivers poignant commentary about the relationship between man and nature as well as the effects of globalization and capitalism in today's world.

Reacting to radical changes taking place internationally in the late»80s and early»90s, these shows — «In Transit,» «The Final Frontier,» and «Trade Routes» — posed questions about globalization's social, economic, cultural, and intellectual exchanges, and grappled with issues as wide - reaching as neoliberal capitalism and as specific as the situations facing individual cities.

Babak Radboy's «Circle Time,» a faux kids» show that engages toddlers in a dialogue about the ills of capitalism, left a bad taste in my mouth, as did Chantal Mouffe's «General Intellects with McKenzie Wark,» in which an economic theorist, beheaded via special - effects technology, lectures on liberalism and democracy in an empty meeting room.

Their multimedia works use the languages of advertising and politics to initiate conversations about power, propaganda and manipulation, especially as they relate to fallen Communist dictatorships and the rapid rise of capitalism in Vietnam and beyond.

I believe it's to be the subject of another, more in - depth article on Artslant, but I walked in to a giant video of a rat being dissected and various slogans about capitalism appearing on subtitles such as «the UK is switching to the Rat,» and «the Rat just fell in value against the Russian Ruble.»

Recent independent curatorial projects include: CORPORATE OCCULT, let's talk about the body baby, NU Performance (2016), which presented works by international artists that dealt with contemporary issues surrounding gender and the body; Art in the Era of Digital Capitalism (2016), a conference considering the tendencies of acceleration and post-2011 institutional alternatives, which included Franco Bifo Beradi as its keynote speaker; and numerous others.

I'm at Cooper Union today to liveblog the The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism event.

So, first of all, the global energy markets are about as far from a free - market capitalism model as can be.

But, as we see again in the article in today's Times about the Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, capitalism and environmentalism need not be mutually antagonistic.

But as has been said about horse racing, the way to make a lot of money in venture capitalism is to start out with really, really a lot of money.

In the meantime, I think the SxSW Eco panelists that spoke about ecologizing capitalism are a good place to start as any.

As long as you have capitalism you will have political statements opposed to CO2 emissions and promising to do something about it, but political outcomes that achieve nothing and commercial practices that continue exploration for fossil fuels and exploit whatever fossil fuel resources they can get their hands oAs long as you have capitalism you will have political statements opposed to CO2 emissions and promising to do something about it, but political outcomes that achieve nothing and commercial practices that continue exploration for fossil fuels and exploit whatever fossil fuel resources they can get their hands oas you have capitalism you will have political statements opposed to CO2 emissions and promising to do something about it, but political outcomes that achieve nothing and commercial practices that continue exploration for fossil fuels and exploit whatever fossil fuel resources they can get their hands on.