Sentences with phrase «for class struggles»

Basquiat's works had strong social commentary and deeper truths about the individual and the power structures of racism, and criticism of colonialism and support for class struggles.

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.

Not exact matches

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

Two months after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, going to class is still a struggle for freshman Lauren Fest.

«Liberals believe that government must not only create the right conditions for economic growth, but also ensure that growth is sustainable and will finally help struggling middle class families.»

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.

Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower - middle - class makes it easier for Democrats....

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

They come from three kinds of social practice: the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.»

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

So we buy fancy cars and travel first class and build mansions for ourselves and furnish them with luxuries to satisfy our whims while our neighbors on this planet live in shacks and struggle against oppression and watch their children die young from lack of food and medical care.

By calling religion an ideology, Marx implies that it provides a transcendent escape for the victims of the class struggle and thus deadens their revolutionary passion for changing their existing order.

• «Globalization» has become a synonym for capitalism in some circles, including Christians not yet fully weaned from the excitements of Marxist class struggle.

Perhaps EMS was not familiar with the ideas of a number of prominent theologians who accept class struggle as a fact and as a tool for analysis.

Some, after chiding Herbert McCabe for his doctrinal failings, echo his calls for open class struggle.

What actually happens with Gutiérez and others close to him is something like this: they turn to the social sciences for help in understanding the dynamics of the world in which they live; among those they read is Marx, who describes a world in which a «class struggle» is going on.

Printing ushered in the Reformation and with it religious plurality and the differentiation of consciousness reflecting competing and conflicting classes and other interests (all struggling for the right to tell stories from their own points of view) in the same society.

It is also clear that he makes use of some of Marx's analytic tools, particularly the notion of «class struggle» — and it is primarily for this that he is being attacked.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

In other words, they saw clearly that along with the struggle for justice for the industrial working class, we must simultaneously go forward with the liberation of dalits, tribals and women if we have to realize an Indian socialism.

The struggling working class and disintegrating middle class yearn for a stable place to stand, not greater economic freedom.

It fashions society into an economic organization in which production for profit becomes the central enterprise, in which the economic relations of men are regarded as their fundamental relations, in which economic privileges are most highly prized, and in which the resultant classes of men are set to struggle with one another for the economic goods.

10 Pixley's observation comes at the end of «Justice and the Class Struggle: A Challenge for Process Theology,» PS 4:159 - 75.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

We started out with the proposition that the ideal of a fraternal organization of society will remain powerless if it is supported by idealists only; that it needs the firm support of a solid class whose economic future is staked on the success of that ideal; and that the industrial working class is consciously or unconsciously committed to the struggle for the realization of that principle.

It is a commonplace among scholars of the Women's movement that the 19th century struggle for women's rights in America had lost much of its radical thrust by the end of the century as the vote became the single overriding issue, and that supporters of women's suffrage were not above an appeal to blatant racism and class - consciousness to advance their cause.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle for social and economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.

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.

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.

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.»

The advocates of the socio - historical method perceived that calling to be support of the oppressed classes in their struggle for justice.

Karl Marx (1818 - 83) too was critical of religion, which obscured the struggle for power of the working classes.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

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.

In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

1Two recent articles, one by George V. Pixley, «Justice and Class Struggle: A Challenge for Process Theology» (PS 4:159 - 75) and another by Clark M. Williamson, «Whitehead as Counterrevolutionary?

The analysis of the role of Pentecostalism in the daily struggle for survival can contribute to understanding the process of cultural and social change among the poorer classes.

A less than optimal and still agreeable scenario involves the inclusion of Hanukkah cookies at a class party or even a Hanukkah song at the school's chorus program — usually a previously unknown and completely forgettable musical composition — which, of course, emphasizes the ancient Maccabees» struggle for freedom of religion.

If you're wondering about the cost, note that Tobias has never played above Class A, was just promoted above Low - A for the first time last summer, and struggled at High - A.

The signing of Vidal would be a big help for the club, who have long struggled in their attempts to find a top class midfield player to replace the recently - retired club legend Paul Scholes.

The Gunners will avoid losing Sanchez for nothing this summer when his contract is set to expire, while Mkhitaryan has struggled for form at Old Trafford this season and his creative class and technical quality arguably makes him a perfect fit for the Emirates.

Suarez, Aguero and Lewandowski are what define world class, they have the skill and mentality to destroy any defence they face and are each capable of carrying any team they play for, without them their team struggles.

They are likely the three best CCS wrestlers at those two weight classes, so practice will be intense as the three struggle for leverage in the lineup.

The 26 year - old has suffered a number of setbacks over the years, having previously been hailed as the next World Class star to come out of the Gunners academy, and now finds himself struggling for regular football.

If the Tigers continue to struggle, look for Bush to join his Flanagan High School teammates — Devin Gil and Josh Metellus — in the Wolverines» 2016 class.