Update Judging by the comments, rightwingers are pretty hard to embarrass (after eight years of Bush, and the complete collapse
of their economic ideology, I guess this isn't so surprising).
It's probably the case that I dug deeper, and was less charitable to the mainstream than I might have been because
of my economic ideology.
But we recognized that the more realistic goal was to weaken the support
of economic ideology and the policies it generates on the part of people of good will.
Not exact matches
The aggregate
of all our joys and sufferings, thousands
of confident religions,
ideologies and
economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer
of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher
of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history
of our species, lived there - on a mote
of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Built just inside North Korea's border in 2004 as a symbol
of economic partnership, it is a place where commerce trumps
ideology, while generating $ 2 billion a year for the North's trade - starved economy.
The transition from a radical regime guided by a utopian
ideology to a pragmatic one with a laser - like focus on maintaining power by delivering superior
economic performance is one
of the main drivers for how China has managed to engineer an
economic revolution since the late 1970s.
One
of those who find in the discipline more
ideology than science, Orrell argues against 10 principles
of economic orthodoxy, including the rationality and predictability
of the market and its potential to provide happiness.
The result was a birth
of a new
economic ideology, the Obama ideology... or what I like to call, «Liberal Economic Elitism»
economic ideology, the Obama
ideology... or what I like to call, «Liberal
Economic Elitism»
Economic Elitism» (LEE).
We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an
economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead
of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an
ideology of cooperation instead
of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.
Lastly, Harper simply has no answer at all when it comes to promoting new long term
economic growth in Canada and his laissez - faire
ideology means that we are falling further and further behind those countries that are actually using the power and organizing capacity
of the state to create sustained, modernizing
economic growth.
There is no narrative that sets out the longer - run
economic and social challenges; there is no discussion
of how these challenges are interrelated; and, there is no commitment to put aside
ideologies and consider what is best for the country.
At issue was the «sanctity
of debt»
ideology that took no account
of the broad
economic context and growth prospects.
Through the 1950s, however, all Christians
of whatever stripe held to what Wilcox calls «the
ideology of familism» that invested marriage, childbearing, and the household with sacredness, and in which, at least since the Industrial Revolution, men were the chief
economic providers while the domestic sphere and the welfare
of the children were chiefly the domain
of women.
This
ideology insists that «everything from the necessities
of economic competition to limited resources requires «cramming» future populations in ever smaller spaces.
People like Santorum remind me
of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full
of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid
ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and
economic injustice.
It's also a matter
of social practices, governmental policies, political decisions,
economic strategies and
ideologies that are spread through education and media.
Manifest Destiny — the
ideology through which the Europeans and others moved Westward across America, ultimately leading to the greatest genocide in the history
of the planet — was an
ECONOMIC ideology.
And only those who deny the reality
of terrorism and torture in the Algerian War, the Vietnam War, the shah's Iran, the Afghan «occupation,» the Philippines under Marcos, or the current struggles in Central America, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Beirut attribute terrorism and torture to a single political
ideology or
economic system.
Actually communism, socialism and fascism are the
economic ideologies / philosophies
of choice
of atheists.
Communism, socialism and fascism are the
economic ideologies / philosophies
of choice
of atheists and idolaters.
Actually communism, socialism and fascism are the
economic ideologies / philosophies
of choice.
After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social,
economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem
of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and
ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»
Thus, they see matter as having evolved toward reason, but then they see the evolution
of reason itself as confined purely to the material level — from one material
economic system to another which in turn conditions
ideology or the superstructure
of society.
The recommendations
of the Club
of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and
economic ideology is driven by self - interest.
Some
of the businesses that have put large sums into the campaigns
of congressmen and presidents, as well as labor generally, have suffered from the movement toward free trade that is supported by
economic ideology.
One is a lack
of belief in gods, the other is an
economic and social
ideology that promotes a classless society based on public ownership
of the means
of production.
Instead
of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the
economic or political interests served by
ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set
of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators
of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences
of action that put ideas into effect.
An established church may be the immediate context in which a religious movement appears, and it may be the focus
of the movement's
ideology, but this institution is in turn likely to depend on the state and the
economic hierarchy for support.
It is an
ideology seizing threads
of environmental, social, racial, and
economic justice, and interweaving them with strands
of multiculturalism, gender discourse, gay rights, queer theory, post-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.
The scientific and technical revolution
of the past several centuries has reduced the functional time - space within which the several races, cultures,
ideologies, religions and
economic systems
of mankind live to the dimension
of a village.
We know today, much more vividly than did our philosophical and theological predecessors, how important
economic arrangements are in shaping the values,
ideologies and cultures
of various states.
The whole domain
of Western culture, in its political,
economic, intellectual and ethical aspects, is seen as ruled by
ideologies which have no affinity with the Christian faith.
communis — common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership
of the means
of production, as well as a social, political and
economic ideology that aims at the establishment
of this social order.
But the true scandal, as Caldwell shows, is that political elites»
ideology of deregulation — moral and
economic, liberal and conservative — is responsible for creating, disguising, and prolonging the carnage.
Many Christians in North America and Europe feel alienated from the Third World
ideology that seems to dominate WCC thinking, although perhaps this reflects the failure
of those Christians to acknowledge the
economic exploitation and racism
of Europe and North America.
But this
ideology does not allow us to consider that perhaps private business decisions are in fact making some political decisions more or less inevitable, or that the media themselves may be controlled more by
economic considerations than by a devotion to democratic principles
of free expression.
However, they were also pragmatists, and they couldn't have failed to see how democracy, which was viewed in India as inseparable from the promise
of social and
economic justice, and the official
ideology of secular nationalism were necessary means to contain the country's many sectarian divisions.
Long ago the fanatic belief
of economic liberalism (that if the individual strives for maximum
economic prosperity the result will be maximum prosperity for all) has been shown to be wishful thinking, an
ideology meant to somehow socially justify gross egotism.
But they have altered the fundamental fact that the
economic system
of late industrial America can not be reconciled with the fundamental American
ideology of economic independence as the basis
of political order.
However Communism / Socialism were and still are the favorite
economic ideologies of atheists / evolutionists.
They closely tie
economic Globalization from Above to the political aspect in that (1) the source
of pressure for change is the same, and (2) close links are alleged between the
ideologies of free markets and free societies.
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.
But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message
of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking
of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level
of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race
of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique
of the
economic and social
ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense
of themselves without any sense
of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification
of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate
of the masses.
It is necessary therefore to evaluate this «
ideology»
of the market - economy if we have to evaluate the commoditisation
of education which is now adopted as the government policy as a part
of its policy
of giving priority to
economic growth.
It is based on the sexual experiences
of the poor, using
economic and political analysis while unveiling the sexual
ideology of systematic theology.»
The difference between education understood only as training in technical skills within the
ideology of the
economic growth and education for promoting a technical society within the framework
of a culture
of «scientific temper, humanism and the spirit
of inquiry and reform», is indeed great.
On the other hand, we have the Marxist interpretation
of history as a «dialectical» process, determined by
economic factors; a process which takes form in our time as the final class - war between bourgeoisie and proletariate with their respective «
ideologies».
The
economic prosperity during the baby boom after WWII helped give rise to the consumer
ideology of the 1950's and 60's, which was the beginning
of the modern baby shower.
Politically world - wide this kind
of economic position is most associated with centrist party
ideologies like Christian Democracy and Social Democracy.
Not because they share a gender or even an
ideology but because the Scottish Tory leader has experience
of building an electoral coalition based not on
economic outlook but on being on the winning side
of a referendum and attempting to convert that into a lasting electoral coalition.