He adds: «I believe in a collective society, I believe
in a socialist society, and I believe that we have to ensure that the state provides a level of security for everybody, genuine social security, and a level of protection, and that we should pursue that...
Occasionally liberation theologians suggest that injustice is a function of capitalism and would be overcome more or less automatically
in a socialist society.
At the same time, Ludwig von Mises published an article in 1920 called «Economic Calculation
in the Socialist Society» and a 1922 book, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, arguing that comprehensive central planning of the economy would be disastrous because central planners lacked market prices and market institutions to inform their actions, hence they would waste resources on a vast and even fatal scale.
Not exact matches
In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail -
ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming
socialist society... and much, much more.
I would rather take a Democratic
society with Republican fat cats over a
Socialist one waiting
in bread lines to get my «rations».
Only a
socialist (person who believes that all that people have should be spread amongs the
society) with pathologic (constant) awkward dementias (awkward is peeing yourself
in public... we'll avoid that.
The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim
society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab
society through education and increased contact with the West,
socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion
in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy
in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.
Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic
socialists and democratic capitalists
in modern Western
societies.
The ecumenical social thought
in this century has also been
in transition from the context of the liberal
society, to the challenge of the
socialist society and, then, to the Cold War context, and then to the post-Cold War situation.
Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian
Socialists, were interested
in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economic
in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and
society.15
In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economic
In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence
in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economic
in England never reached as deep as
in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economic
in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.
The
socialist vision of a classless, stateless
society is also
in the tradition of the apocalyptic vision of the prophets of Judaism.
The causes for this are many, according to the authors (Rafael Cepeda, Elizabeth Carrillo, Rhode González, and Carlos Ham), including the recent recognition by the state of the need for new spaces for religious practice and expressions, and of the profound ideological and economic crisis facing
socialist models
in general and Cuban
society in particular.
In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participatio
In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the
socialist system, which
in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participatio
in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a
society of free work, of enterprise and of participation.
And why do social conservatives want to spend an eternal afterlife
in a totalitarian
socialist society of 127 Billion, mostly non-christians???
It is clear that
in the state capitalism of the
socialist societies as well, the spiritual threat of money has not been solved, Money is abused
in societies of both East and West, for purposes more «clandestine» than pornography or abortion.
And, the Chinese conclude, there will be more cultural revolutions
in the future as their
society moves along a
socialist direction.»
Some forty years ago, Hannah Arendt,
in her Crises of the Republic, wrote: «Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators, but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses dispossessed by industrial
society in capitalist and
socialist systems can regain property» —
in other words,
in the twenty - first century, have access to capital.
Hitherto the Western industrial culture has dictated the relations between life
in nature and life
in human
society, both capitalist and
socialist.
There followed a long and ever - changing list of
socialist experiments, most of them
in the Third World, each of which, we were told
in turn, embodied some bright hope for a just and humane
society» China, North Vietnam, Tanzania, Cuba, Nicaragua.
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios
in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in the not - too - distant future
in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in which there might occur resurgences of
socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes
in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in developing
societies and / or the formerly Communist countries
in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention
in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in the economy
in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting,
in a number of countries, beginning with Russi
in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.
Even granted the unspeakable crimes committed
in the 20th century by communist nations (a close inspection of the history of the century, however, would disclose that such
societies have had no monopoly on unspeakable crimes) the morbid anti-Communism of the American right, and the tendency to assimilate every kind of
socialist or even liberal position to that of Communism, indicates, I believe, some serious failure to come to terms with the balance between dependence and independence, solidarity and autonomy, that are part of any mature personality or
society.
There is NO «tipping point» between «greed» and «ambition», the first term universally regarded as «bad» and the second «good»
in all but communist or
socialist societies.
It is not something that has come about only
in the last few years, for examples, as if it came about only after the «end» of the so - called «Cold War», or the so - called «collapse» of the Soviet Union and the other Eastern European
socialist societies.
What confronts us is not a series of separate crises
in industry, economics and ecology but a single basic defect that lies deep
in the design of modern
society, be it
in capitalist,
socialist, developing or developed countries.
But all indications were that
in the long run the
Socialist party tendency to enter the political system and thereby bring the newly emerging working classes into active participation
in political
society would prevail.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood
in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years
in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's
in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918)
in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral
Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of
Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from
Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation
in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group
in the State Department; the first stroke
in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union
in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death
in Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
in 1971.
Suffice it to say that countermodernization and countersecularization can be observed not only
in the Third World but also
in the so - called advanced industrial
societies, those of both the capitalist and the
socialist varieties.
But that case becomes easier to make on simply empirical grounds as data about the ecologically devastating conditions
in both traditional, pretechnological
societies and
in the antitheological
socialist societies of the former Eastern European countries becomes available.
Whilst there, involvement
in the Fabian
Society and the
Socialist Federation set her on the path that would eventually lead to Parliament.
Published
in May 2011 after a series of seminars
in London and Oxford, the text contains a foreword from Labour leader Ed Miliband, and was supported by Labour's key pressure groups The Fabian
Society, Progress, Compass and the Christian
Socialist Movement.
There is a fair chance the new Scottish Labour leadership team will be totally at odds with Corbyn's
socialist principles: Kezia Dugdale thinks that «too often
in the recent past it has looked like we are only on the side of... the most vulnerable
in society.»
Robert Page asks: Instead of skirmishing with the Conservatives and Liberals over «ownership» of the «progressive» label do you think that that the Labour Party should define itself unambiguously as a
socialist party which believes that the state has a positive and active role to play
in creating a more equal
society?
And, commonly
in progressive /
socialist societies you will find another truth: «the equalizers never equalize themselves.»
The main reason of collapse of USSR from our direct point of view was that
socialist policies imposed on the
society and foregoing economical inefficiencies as a result, created an environment
in which you had money, but you couldn't buy anything for it.
In particular, the concept of Ayni, roughly translated as «right (or proper) relationship», can be seen as analagous to the
socialist dictum «from each according to their ability; to each according to their need», and was a cornerstone of Inca
society, just as it remains an intrinsic part of indigenous Andean culture today.
As
socialists, our alternative to the division, disempowerment and rampant exploitation of Tory Britain is an open
society based on solidarity,
in which bigotries and divisions are swept aside, and wealth and power are taken back from the hoarders to be shared out among working people.
And
in the same speech Michael Foot informed the nation, «I want to move towards a
socialist society as fast as I can».
You may be thinking about a) anarcho - socialism b) anarcho - unionism c) the
socialist society that is supposed to be implemented when the proletarian dictatorship is obsolete (cf Karl Marx; the dictatorship is
in theory not supposed to last forever)
Socialist societies, affiliated organisations and trade unions all want Labour's policy to be clear about staying
in the customs union.
However, the «registered supporters» would be included
in the part of Labour's electoral college which includes the unions and affiliated
socialist societies (the Fabian Society, Christian Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes wil
socialist societies (the Fabian
Society, Christian
Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes wil
Socialist Movement, Labour Students, etc), which means - on the face of it - the unions» share of the leadership votes will be cut.
Despite the loftiness of much left - wing rhetoric, sexism, racism and homophobia have never successfully been eliminated from
socialist politics for the simple reason that these movements reflect the
societies in which they were conceived.
Possibly most of the «
socialists» within the Labour Party — like even Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn — not being
Socialist Workers Party style
socialists, did not leave the Party and instead grudgingly accepted our dilution to social democracy for the main reason that pure socialism sans
in - govt would remain a mere theory and would be worse than practical social democratic reforms / reliefs whilst
in power -LRB--- and particularly bebeficial / necessary after a prolonged Thatcherite damage to our
society!
Vital statistics: David Miliband Age: 45 Constituency: South Shields (11,109 majority) First elected: June 2001 Current role: Shadow Foreign Secretary Nominations: 81 MPs, 165 constituency Labour parties, six MEPs, two trade unions, one
socialist society Donations: # 138,835.12
in July 2010 and # 185,265.21
in June 2010 declared to the Electoral Commission Who Knows Who: David Miliband's map
Vital statistics: Andy Burnham Age: 40 Constituency: Leigh (12,011 majority) First elected: June 2001 Current role: Shadow Health Secretary Nominations: 33 MPs, 44 constituency Labour parties, one MEPs, no trade unions, one
socialist society Donations: # 22,400
in July 2010, none
in June 2010 according to figures declared to the Electoral Commission Who Knows Who: Andy Burnham's map
which is designed to involve all party stakeholders (including members, local parties, trade unions,
socialist societies and Labour representatives) as well as the wider community
in shaping party policy and support the relationship between the party
in the country and the party
in government.
The overall agenda that I have been trying to develop since the mid-1990s is captured
in the description of what István Mészáros calls
socialist education: «the social organ through which the mutually beneficial reciprocity between the individuals and their
society becomes real.»
Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a
Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power
in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement
in making a better
society.
In Revolutionary Multiculturalism (1997), McLaren expounds on «a
socialist - feminist multiculturalism that challenges... historically sedimented processes through which race, class, and gender identities are produced within capitalist
society.»
It persists
in seeing public schools as a catalyst to transform
society into a democratic
socialist model.
These pieces of art can also be interpreted
in relation to the current
socialist society of Cuba and its strong nationalism.