Sentences with phrase «classless societies»

Are classless societies and religion mutually exclusive?

Camus» objection to any future goal to judge the present, whether a Christian's hope for immortality or a Marxist's dream of a future classless society, is that it leads to an «ideal of the spirit» that fails to appreciate the temporal enjoyment of bodily existence.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

He clearly sees a role for Marxism, which, he thinks, has enriched the myth of Golden Age found in many religious traditions by working towards building a classless society.

One is a lack of belief in gods, the other is an economic and social ideology that promotes a classless society based on public ownership of the means of production.

In sum: for Marx, consciousness, subjectivity, ideal aims (e.g., the classless society) are fully as important as are the persuasive agencies for Whitehead and, vice versa, for Whitehead the senseless agencies are fully as important as are the economic conditions for Marx.

Although Marxist theory teaches the establishment of a classless society through the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat, in actual practice the self - styled «Peoples» Democracies» contain well - defined new classes.

It is being recognized a little more readily today by at least some Marxists and some Christians, that the Communist concern for the welfare of the whole human society, including in particular that of the worker, and the Communist hope for a renewed world with a classless society, find their roots in the Judeo - Christian heritage, and especially the new - world - hope of the prophets of Israel.

Are we a classless society, and if so, in what sense or senses?

Hitler promised the thousand year Reich, the Marxists believe in the inevitability of the classless society, Democrats proclaim the century of the common man.

Socialism's goal of a classless society does not mean a society without roots, without loyalties, traditions, faith.

Karl Marx hailed the coming of the classless society.

As in the case of the Marxist vision of a classless society, if its coming is inevitable, why must we work for it?

He specifies several different «ways of being inactive»: the inactivity of «the conservative believer in things as they are,» the inactivity of «the pessimist who watches a world go to pieces,» and the inactivity of the communists who see current struggles as convolutions preceding the ultimate establishment of a classless society.

Hartshorne consequently raises the following question regarding the aim of life: «Be the aim Nirvana, the Classless Society, the Welfare State, Self - Realization, the query is never silenced, what good is it, from the cosmic and everlasting perspective, that one or other or all of these aims be attained for a time on this ball of rock?»

It appears to no traditional laws or forms of government but rather to its own concocted Law of Nature (survival of the fittest, master race) or Law of History (a classless society and that one class the proletariat).

First, it tells how life should be lived and identifies the proper object of unconditioned loyalty, be this object God, Success, or the Classless Society.

In the United States and Canada we live with the myth of the «classless society.»

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in a class society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which, of course, the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

The postmodern world is then that of the classless society.

In fact Marx would say that just as selfishness is natural in class - society, love will be natural in classless society.

Further, education was conceived as an instrument to realize the goal of a casteless and classless society.

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in class - society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which of course the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

Communism looked to the imminent coming of the classless society and Nazism was committed to the achievement of the pure Aryan race.

2) One of the oldest ambitions of the Labour movement is the classless society (or at least a society in which there is a less immediate division between people of different socio - economic backgrounds).

Adding to the requirement of a stateless and classless society - in order to have communism, you must also abolish value itself.

For Crosland, writing in the midst of postwar prosperity, the seemingly reachable goal was a classless society.

They see the notion of a classless society in which all are equal is fundamentally broken as a concept.

This process will inevitably lead, according to Marx, to the final revolution, where the oppressed class in all history (workers, farmers, etc. the proletariat) will overthrow the ruling class, implement the dictatorship of the proletariat and gradually abolish class inequities, leading to a classless society.

There will be a type of law, there will not be much more freedom than there exists under capitalism, unlike what will be the case in communism - the stateless, classless society.

In a step towards a dreamy classless society perhaps, and another towards greater transparency, the Cabinet Office today published its report on social mobility.

We are a long distance from being a classless society.»

The laudable quests for a classless society and wider accessibility of higher education offer one answer.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

Garnett and Cain grapple with the deepest issues of noir — for example, upending the myth that America is a classless society.

Evidently the only solution is a classless society.

This led to an explosion in wealth & living standards, which got shared» round pretty equally for the next few decades — thereby cementing the myth of a classless society, the idea all Americans are middle class.

Mindful of the need for the fine arts of patronage since it tends to receive its support from an economic elite - which Greenberg feared was disappearing - he prophetically predicted a classless society brought about by the coming age of industrialization and a broad leisure class.

Currently his work is included in Classless Society, on view at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York.

Constant, OriëntSector (1959), (metal, ink on Perspex and oil paint on wood): Motivated by the utopian notion that World War II had ushered in a new era in which the automation of all production would bring about a stable, classless society, Dutch artist Constant began a two - decade - long project to devise an appropriately progressive architecture and urban planning practice.

His work has been included in exhibitions such as the Tang Museum's «Classless Society,» (Saratoga Springs, NY).

Not exact matches

The ideal society for this author was classless, and that could not happen if a male penetrates a male, and makes him thereby, a lower class.

The socialist vision of a classless, stateless society is also in the tradition of the apocalyptic vision of the prophets of Judaism.

At almost the same time, Marx proclaimed a classless, religionless society with room enough for everybody.

For Marx, Engels, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (WSM) since 1904 Socialism / Communism mean the same thing: a global moneyless, classless, wageless, stateless society where production is for use and there is free access to all that's produced, a system of society that can not be established until the overwhelming majority of the worlds workers understand the concept of and want to organise for such a society.

True hardcore Marxists all believe that ultimately millions and millions of people will have to be liquidate during the transitional dictatorship necessary to achieve a classless, property-less society.