«This is
a class struggle between the political elites and those of us fighting to rescue the soul of our society.
Not exact matches
Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took
class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the
struggle for power
between the business community and all other social groups.
Buber traces the development of this philosophy through Feuerbach and Vico to Marx, who made the distinction
between good and evil a function of the
class struggle, and Nietzsche, who, «like Marx, saw historical morals as the expression and instruments of the power
struggle between ruling and oppressed
classes.»
Because he is a dedicated Marxist as well as a famous geneticist, Lewontin saw the conflict
between creation and evolution as a
class struggle, with history inevitably awarding the victory to the naturalistic
class.
Now what does Gutiérrez do in the face of the very obvious fact that there is a
struggle going on
between classes, initiated not by the poor but by the rich?
The current
class struggle is
between the new knowledge
class and the old business
class.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation
between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of
class - war leading to the necessary love of the
class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued
struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.
So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense
between economic and social
classes who were
struggling for power.»
We may, of course, regret the fact that this alliance
between church and state has allowed the ruling
classes to co-opt Christian religion in order to legitimate the interests, the hopes, the
struggles and the ambitions of the dominant elites at the expense of the oppressed and powerless sections of society.
In particular, the determining factor in the evolution of society is the
class struggle — the inevitable conflict
between the exploiters and the exploited, the capitalists who own the tools of production and the workers who use them.
It is the defect of all ideologies to think that the human person is reducible to some one simple principle, a uniquely explanatory core element, be it the will to power, the laws of physics, the
struggle between the id and the superego, or the dialectic of
class warfare.
Just as society is divided by
class struggle, so the church and its theology are divided
between an ideological use of religion to sanctify the ruling
class and a prophetic tradition that denounces this misuse of religion.
We
struggle to see how the Championship side get anything out of this game given the gulf in
class between them.
«Their overall mission», in Perry Anderson's summation, «was to change the relation of forces
between capital and labour, where necessary — principally in Britain and America — after tough
class struggles to crush resistance to a new order.
Adopting the appropriate tactics towards the soft left — to distinguish
between those, like Hain, who provide a left cover for the right and those, such as at present Tribune newspaper or Labour Reform, opposing such attacks — is absolutely vital for the
class struggle left.
It's my last semester of college, and
between the seven
classes I'm taking in order to graduate, work, a side job (more on that later), job hunting, this blog, and trying to make the most out of my last semester with all of my friends here (some of whom I'm not sure when I'll see again after graduation), I'm
struggling to stay sane.
The film also delves into the theme of letting go of one's past, as Brian is continually
struggling between finding his true identity at Bristol and being dragged back to his working -
class roots by his best friend and part - time criminal Spencer (Dominic Cooper).
His students, led by star b - baller Lester (Usher Raymond) and senior
class president Stephanie (Rosario Dawson), confront the principal (Glynn Turman) in protest, indirectly leading to a physical
struggle between artist Ziggy (Robert Ri «chard) and the on - campus cop, Dante Jackson (Forest Whitaker).
Set in Mississippi, Mudbound takes us through the
struggle between race,
class, and two families as they learn to coexist.
The hints at the differences
between the
classes, and grunge and grime shown of the have - nots, Lizzie
struggles to make her way to the top, and is constantly underestimated, which gives her the underdog advantage.
Rhee speaks often about her Teach For America (TFA) tour in a Baltimore classroom
between 1992 and 1995: how she
struggled the first year until pairing with another teacher to team - teach a
class of 2nd and 3rd graders.
But, there were other teachers in other
classes that were really
struggling teaching in that environment, so I think that they were aware that noise was such a problem, but it was just good for them to see a comparison
between what the noise levels should be, what they were, and what the impact of this is.
It could easily have been set in in the U.S., and most teachers and students in multicultural
classes will recognize the familiar
struggle between a teacher who wants to do good and students who disagree about what «good» is.
In this way, a
struggling reader could benefit from several programs — each with a specially trained teacher — without creating transfers
between classes.
Serve as a liaison
between the students and the teachers of any
classes where the students are
struggling academically
Ninth grade students took this reading
class in addition to their regular 9th grade English
class, which helped close the gap
between the amount of reading
struggling readers do in school and the amount of reading high achievers do.
«If kids aren't there every day, it's going to be hard for us to succeed,» said Balfanz, whose work has helped show that there is a tight link
between students who miss
class frequently — more than 10 percent of the school year, or 18 days in a 180 - day school year — and those who
struggle academically and eventually drop out.
One of the cornerstones of their partnership, The Communist Manifesto, was published in 1848, and asserted that human history consistently showed a
struggle between the working
classes or proletariat and the owners and producers or...
Cath
struggles to find the balance
between devoting her attention to the real world — her family, college
classes, living on her own (and separate from her party - girl twin sister, Wren), an unexpected romance and finding that elusive campus cafeteria — and disappearing into the comforting, fictional world of her own stories.
Bellwether Prize Winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel is the fiercely imagined story of a woman
struggling to navigate an America of a not - too - distant future, where the line
between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed - their skin color is genetically altered to match the
class of their crime - and then released back into the population to survive as best they can.
If you're
struggling with something
between classes, speak up!
If, for example, I ask BA Redemption Finder to show me Business
Class availability for two people
between Los Angeles and London for next summer I can see very quickly that I'm going to
struggle to book a week - long trip before the middle of August:
If you're not hungry and you're not a drinker than you probably won't notice too much difference
between this lounge and its big brother downstairs... and I'm tempted to try this lounge out the next time I'm
struggling to find a seat in the First
Class lounge.
In Liz Magic Laser's Kiss and Cry (2015), figure skating children voice their anger at being deployed as pictures of innocence and announce themselves as a political
class; in Jesse Jones's The
Struggle Against Ourselves (2011), dancers recreate études from Soviet biomechanical workshops in the style of a Busby Berkeley musical, highlighting aesthetic dialogues
between ideological paradigms; whilst in Jibade - Khalil Huffman's IF THIS MEANS YOU (2016), a persuasive rhetorical poetry has been wrought from seductive advertising imagery.
Her imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with Western art historical references, while highlighting shifting notions of gender and
class within the context of the
struggle between modernity and tradition.
Fashion, Walter Benjamin would remind us, is as excellent an example as any of revolution and
class struggle, of the conflict
between people, space, time, and history itself.
In part because of that
struggle, last year I was able to negotiate with their second - semester Torts professor to shift the mix of coverage
between the two semesters so I could teach causation in the integrated
class in the fall.
In
class, students were often able to make explicit connections
between material they had learned through the productive
struggle that we often classify as the «pre-writing» part of a writing assignment and the substance that was part of their Torts
class.67 On exams, I could often see differences
between the strength of the answers when students were writing about issues that they had learned in more depth through writing assignments and those that they were encountering (or at least writing about) for the first time on their exams.68
In
class, we discuss a board member's seeming
struggle between loyalty to his friend, the CEO, and the fiduciary duties he owes to the corporation and the shareholders.
In many ways, Justice Story's Bill of Peace stands as the keystone
between the Founders» demands for a fair trial, and later courts»
struggles to preserve judicial economy and fairness in
class actions.
Take a co-parenting
class or see a co-parenting counselor or coach if you're
struggling with the adjustment from
between being co-parents and marital partners