it's not as
if socialism exists in the US anyway.
If socialism is applied in a sufficiently small dose then the negative consequences are small too and the country can survive it, even prosper.
Because
if Socialism Hater watched the same ad for T - Mobile, but it was in support for, I don't know, keeping Chief Wahoo around, they would probably be all for it.
(Therefore, I am not a socialist,
if socialism means state ownership of the means of production.
Not exact matches
If all this sounds like
socialism, it really isn't.
«
If the bill goes through it will be forbidden to use symbols of totalitarian regimes such as national
socialism or communism,» Orban's chief of staff, Janos Lazar, told The Guardian.
With the apparent demise of Communism,
if not of
socialism, the other political pathology of modernity, nationalism, is returning to center stage.
If Jesus were here today, a typical news by Fox report would be, «Jesus is preaching
Socialism to the black, asians, immigrants, prisoners and the poor.
If scientific
socialism carries the «progressive» idea of human universality to its extreme, nationalism carries the «reactionary» idea of....
Everyone was crazy for National
Socialism and
if you defied the current thinking people looked at you as beyond the pale.
If Romney just wants someone who will dutifully parrot the campaign - generated talking points about how Obama is for European
socialism and doesn't understand the business of business while Romney is for the entrepreneurs of free market capitalism America, then Pawlenty is the guy.
If Protestantism hadn't suffered the internal erosion of its orthodox substance in the long devolution that began with Kant and the Enlightenment, he suggests, it might have been less vulnerable to the ideological blandishments of National
Socialism and its promise of a German national rebirth.
James Nuechterlein replies:
If Mr. Segermark has his way, the word
socialism will no longer mean what it has always meant» public ownership and control of the means of production» but something along the lines of «left - wing programs I do not like.»
Anytime anyone says ANYTHING to stick up for the poor, it all becomes an opportunity for rich folks to just cry
socialism as
if regulating big business whatsoever is a bad thing.
Not the socially conservative, servant of feel good capitalism that is so prevalent in the U. S. And let's look at it this way,
if that mysoginist, drug addicted coward, Rush Limbaugh thinks what the Pope is doing is
socialism, then the Pope must be doing something right.
If that end is
socialism, for example, the state is legitimate.
Only
if Obama does it it's
socialism.
If the actions of Christ and his early followers are what people like Rush call communism,
socialism and Marxism, then Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ and the early Christians were the greatest Marxists!
One of the greatest,
if not the greatest, servants of the poor of our time, Mother Teresa, said that the «greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion», not capitalism or
socialism or any other political belief.
If one must pigeonhole his principles it can not but be put in the category of Marxism or
socialism.
It is beyond the scope of this review to pursue the connections between Heidegger's philosophy of Being and his ardent
if brief flirtation with National
Socialism.
We do not yet know why he turned back upon his genuine commitment to National
Socialism —
if indeed he did.
If one looks at the world it is clear that the big differences are not between these two, but between these as a group on the one hand and despotic elite capitalism grouped with despotic full
socialism on the other hand.
If the evolution to a decent capitalism is thus prevented we need to keep in mind that at least some variants of
socialism would be considerably preferable to the status quo.
If that isn't the core of marxisim,
socialism, and communism, then what is it.
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.
Supporters of present economic policies often speak as
if the alternative to global capitalism is state
socialism, and they rightly point to its limitations.
Socialism: Past and Future by michael harringtonarcade publishing, 320 pages, $ 19.95
If one is going to be a socialist, Michael Harrington's variety is perhaps the best kind to be.
If human nature has the two aspects of «being» and «consciousness» (being and being aware), political romanticism corresponds more to the former element,
socialism to the latter.
If you guys think Obama is Socialist, you don't know what
socialism is.
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.
He himself gives an answer when he writes: «
Socialism is religious
if religion means living out of the roots of human being.»
As
if this were not cheeky enough, the unelected and unchallenged «president» Raúl Castro also claimed that he was committed to building «a prosperous and sustainable
socialism focused on human beings and the family, and with the free, democratic, conscious and creative involvement of the entire society.»
If Marxism and secular ideologies of liberal democracy were turning points, the collapse of
socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has been historic too.
I do not know whether some sort of decentralized democratic
socialism can supply a healthier economic base for the kind of change that seems necessary
if we are to continue as a society of free men and women.
«Revolutionary» could never be an entirely negative attribute in America and
if that were the only problem with
socialism it is possible that it might have been domesticated.
If there is a profound disparity between the present American economic system and basic American values, and if many Americans have so argued, then it is all the more surprising that some version of socialism, as the main alternative to capitalist economic organization in the modern world, has not found favor in the United State
If there is a profound disparity between the present American economic system and basic American values, and
if many Americans have so argued, then it is all the more surprising that some version of socialism, as the main alternative to capitalist economic organization in the modern world, has not found favor in the United State
if many Americans have so argued, then it is all the more surprising that some version of
socialism, as the main alternative to capitalist economic organization in the modern world, has not found favor in the United States.
If and in so far as
socialism... means the satisfaction of material need and social justice in a material democracy,
socialism is the symbol for the liberation of men from the vicious circle of poverty.
Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that
socialism there has in some sense «frozen» traditional ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders
if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some conservatives believe it must in any healthy society.
In an address on «War,
socialism, and «Christianity»» in 1915 he stated: «A true Christian must be a socialist (
if he is serious about the reformation of Christianity).
A true socialist must be a Christian (
if he is concerned with the reformation of
socialism).»
At the same time,
if an all encompassing
socialism has proved too cumbersome, inefficient and corruptible, that does not mean that disaggregated forms of
socialism are unworkable.
The break had to do partly with whether,
if push came to shove, democracy would be sacrificed for
socialism or
socialism for democracy.
If, however, we seek and even accept some other protection or security, e.g., that of the state or wealth, or social security, or
socialism, or violence, or revolution, or justice, this will be a repudiation of our security in Christ and consequently it will be an alienation of our freedom.
Obviously, the collapse of Eastern European
socialism —
if indeed it is collapsing — can not be taken as a judgment upon Christian
socialism.
Only 5 per bent «strongly agree» and 33 per cent «agree» that the U.S. would be better off
if it moved toward
socialism.
For one, why did so many,
if not most, Ger - mans who were church - going Christians actively aid and abet National
Socialism?
If to all the enormous power that the state has anyway you add the power to run the economy, which is what
socialism empirically means, the tendency toward creating some sort of totalitarianism becomes extremely strong.
The real answer here is
if we can indeed take the «good side» of each economic system (free market capitalism in one side and government run
socialism on the other) and
if the resulting arrangement can be archived and mantained.
If the state was to retreat the communities, families and individuals that composed civil society must resume the moral functions eroded by modernity's fashions: secularisation, bureaucratisation and
socialism.