Using corn as a central material, Zea reflects on contemporary forms
of economic domination in the Americas.
For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than
of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.
Not exact matches
In this context
of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions
of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes
of religious Liberty,
economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat
of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that
of Communist
domination, fell flat.
This not only exaggerates the influence
of the liberationists on Latin American
economic policy, it obscures the impact
of five centuries
of colonial / imperial
domination....
The neo-conservatives» quest for U.S.
domination of the oil fields in the Middle East and
of military and
economic geopolitics in that region aligns neatly with the views
of Harvard scholar Samuel P. Huntington, whose «clash
of civilizations» theory divides the world into the West vs. the Rest.
It has almost no structural analysis
of the
economic, political and military
domination of Latin America by the U.S. government or by U.S. - supported business and capital - lending institutions.
The identification
of Europe and «the faith» implied, on the one hand, that those who accepted European
economic, political and military
domination and who adopted European civilization thereby came under pressure to undergo conversion to the European faith in Jesus Christ.
Therefore, the entreaty
of Latin America is for liberation from cultural
domination,
economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment
of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution
of wealth.
In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform
of political, social, and
economic systems
of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon
of economic globalization.
The present growth
of capitalist globalization is the continuation
of the
economic and sociocultural order built up by the earlier Western military and colonial
domination.
The elite
domination, continuing misery
of the poor, rise
of religious fundamentalism, impact
of new
economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.
The present growth
of capitalist globalization is the continuation
of the
economic and sociocultural order built up by that earlier global transformation under Western military and colonial
domination.
The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and
economic domination were all present in all the conflicts
of the time.
All
of us in our varied ministries tend to be awed by the structures and potency
of the establishment
of Baal, even though we know, somewhere down there in the timid, secret resources
of faith, that all the stuff
of Baal doesn't make God — power, technological sophistication, machismo, sex, political, military, and
economic domination, energy independence (ha!).
If South American nations can overcome these obstacles, this should be possible in parts
of the world where
domination has thus far been chiefly
economic, with much less threat
of overt military intervention.
A church
of friends, a world
of compassion without
domination or privilege, winners or loser — we dismiss that as impossible because our imaginations, conditioned by unexamined political and
economic assumptions, can not grasp it as a practical possibility.
The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave
of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to
economic exploitation and political
domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.
The third - world nations, recognizing that continuation
of media
domination made
economic domination all the more inevitable, sought to buttress the UNESCO New Economic Order statement with a New International Information Order st
economic domination all the more inevitable, sought to buttress the UNESCO New
Economic Order statement with a New International Information Order st
Economic Order statement with a New International Information Order statement.
Sin, alienating persons from God, neighbor and nature, is found both in individual and corporate forms, both in slavery
of the human will and in social, political and
economic structures
of domination and dependence.
Energy technology systems can become instruments
of economic and social
domination no less easily than other instruments
of power.
In a general sense, one can speak
of four areas
of struggle: (i) the system
of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation
of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way
of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies
of race superiority, the religious legitimation
of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way
of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness
of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology
of domination and to develop a feeling
of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization
of the society through the weakening and destruction
of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.
It is significant that when Daly and Cobb wrote about needed changes to the
economic order, they concluded with criticism
of the disciplinary organization
of knowledge and its
domination of educational institutions, particularly the university (Daly & Cobb 1989, p. 357 - 60).
They succeeded in ending Catholic
domination in much
of northern Europe and provided the foundation for a remarkable growth
of free thought, free
economic activity, political democracy, and modernization.
The WCC's Bangkok Conference cited above rightly urged missionary agencies to «examine critically their involvement as part
of patterns
of political and
economic domination, and to re-evaluate the role
of personnel and finance at their disposal in the light
of that examination.»
The Protestant work ethic thus is but the most pernicious expression
of the Western will toward
economic domination.
There is, however, another power in Eastern Europe that apparently does desire world
domination and with great skill manipulates the longings
of these people for racial equality,
economic subsistence, and political freedom.
Or will the forces pushing for «victory» and
economic domination continue to make imperialism — that second major root
of totalitarianism — a policy
of our government?
Property, as it has been under the neo-liberal governance, can be transformed into a resource for the exercise
of domination by
economic and political elites.
Martí's concerns are with the kind
of political and
economic domination of international institutions and corporations over citizens that has been established in the banking and euro crises.
There are many crosscurrents facing Republicans: the polarization
of the electorate turned off by President Donald Trump, New York City
domination of the state's political and
economic landscape and an exodus
of upstate residents who tended to vote more conservatively.
But anarchism does have much in common with those strands
of republicanism that see themselves as a fundamentally anti-elitist project that confronts sources
of economic, political and social
domination through concerted political action by grassroots organizations.
But, and this will be the focus
of this article, it is also possible for a state to adopt policies that undermine the capacity and, even, disposition
of other states to engage in republican self - government without exercising political or
economic domination over the states in question.
What is baffling for anarchists is how moderate republicans, having uncovered such a radical conception
of freedom as non-
domination, fail to advocate the kind
of radical
economic and political changes needed to create a society free from
domination.
Republican political economy deepens this appeal by focusing attention on that fact that tax justice is integral to blocking sources
of political and
economic domination that disfigure and distort the conditions
of civic life.
The Tories»
domination of the
economic argument has been a political triumph (helped by the lack
of scrutiny from the mainstream media).
But do you think this would go well with the oligarchic bourgeoisie, who are currently profiting from the fusion
of banking and monopoly capital and who are consolidating their power through an intersection
of economic and political forms
of domination?
For some scholars, the cruelty
of economic systems, the wars, and the
domination of man by man would be no more than a reflection
of the most fundamental characteristics
of man as a species: wild instincts, aggressiveness as an engine for development, laziness and the indulgence as maintenance factors
of domination of the weak by the strong.
For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the
economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy
of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms
of power and
domination.
He forgets the powerful role that western and U.S. militarism and
economic clout have played in world affairs and in the
domination and subjugation
of many
of the world's peoples and material resources over recent centuries.
Also, while military conquest or
economic domination often introduces a new language into an established language community, in most cases it takes long - term immigration or the collapse
of the native population to give the new language a foothold (witness the indigenous cultures
of Latin America wiped out by the diseases brought to their shores by Europeans).
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution Based on the classic PC strategy game, you lead one
of 16 civilizations to technological,
economic, cultural, or military
domination.
Elsewhere, Noland sends up another archetypical American symbol in Cowboy Bullethead Movie Star (1990), while Robert Mapplethorpe's double - exposure
of a dollar bill positions the icon
of US
economic power in ambiguous isolation, an icon
of power and
domination rendered indeterminate and translucent.
Steel maize plants, ceramic jerry cans, concrete chainsaws and wooden AK - 47s become symbols for the difficulties
of surviving through subsistence in difficult
economic conditions and evoke the idea
of brutal uprooting
of cultural heritage, political revolution and its self - perpetuating cycle
of domination.
(Wikipedia): «Assuming leadership
of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing
economic self - reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence
of India from foreign
domination.»
On 14 December 1960, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, the Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.113 The Declaration includes a provision that «the subjection
of peoples to alien subjugation,
domination and exploitation constitutes a denial
of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter
of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion
of world peace and co-operation» 114 and «all peoples have the right to self - determination; by virtue
of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their
economic, social and cultural development.»