Sentences with phrase «not against capitalism»

Christianity... and the Pope,,, are not against Capitalism, only the social ills that can result from unbridled greed... when money becomes a false god... or «the Precious» (Lord of the Rings).

Not exact matches

These are to be distinguished from fraudulent pretenders to the title such as Colonel Qaddafi's Popular Democratic Republic, the so - called Democratic Republics of the old USSR, etc.) The sociologist Peter Berger, against his own earlier predilections, has shown in The Capitalist Revolution that among all existing nations capitalism is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for democracy.

I think many think Jesus is preaching against capitalism when he speaks of taking care of the poor but I don't see that.

Please provide me some scripture references that speak against capitalism, not just charity in general.

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 participation.

It is not only in their prejudices against capitalism that the liberation theologians have been found wanting.

When this is understood, Hart's litany of capitalism's supposed abuses — pollution, the confiscation of property, unsafe working conditions, etc. — can be seen not as the inevitable result of unchecked market behavior but as a profound betrayal of the very taboo against the initiation of force that capitalism depends on.

The grim reality is that Corporate America is very much not concerned with giving; in fact the very practice goes against just about everything capitalism stands for.

We must not only alter our personal life style but also struggle against the polluting systems of corporate capitalism that proliferate warfare and waste.

Apart from a general critique against financial capitalism and against the inability of current policies to counteract it, it has not really proposed an alternative vision or utopia likely to mobilize numerous citizens in the long - term and to lead to effective transformations.

The significance of this change of direction is difficult to overstate; for decades Labour had accepted the inequality intrinsic to capitalism as a brute fact — something to be worked around, not worked against.

Isn't this precisely the sort of ludicrous broken - capitalism nonsense we should fight against every day, tooth and nail???????

National Socialism was staunchly against capitalism, and whilst it didn't oppose privately owned companies (unlike its «cousin» / rival, communism), it did dictate that everyone (every German in «nazism's» case) was equal and was required to help one another and work for their nation and fellow Germans rather than personal gain.

There is an urgency to go back to basics and talk to each other... It's not communism against capitalism anymore.

Here the resistance against capitalism does not manifest itself over a complex emotional relationship with the middle class, but rather through being directly opposed to capitalism and demanding a more just and equal world.

You are running against walls (me too ^ ^), things will not change until capitalism broke down.

He was especially concerned with the fact that most people, including many socialists in his time, in rebelling against the evils of capitalism, tended to picture the future in terms that were not that far removed from many of the worst, most environmentally and humanly destructive, aspects of capitalism itself.

Against the establishment wisdom, Minqi Li argues in this provocative and startling book that far from strengthening capitalism, China's full integration into the world capitalist system will, in fact and in the not too distant future, bring about its demise.

But the obstacle is the real existing political economy of capitalism, and not the alleged technical problems cited by Cox, which are misleadingly used as ammunition against the feasibility of the imperative need to facilitate a rapid 100 % global renewable wind / solar energy transition.

And not just any old capitalist, either... Klein, in her argument against capitalism chooses to use the words of a multi-multi-multi millionaire!

Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.

«Green socialism» is about taking a stand against — not for a long time realized — «green capitalism.»