Sentences with phrase «of socialist states»

The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.

We have seen the centrally planned command economies of the socialist states.

The breakdown of the socialist states as well has been accompanied by the process of their subversion by the western media; and the Gulf War has given us an example in which even war and peace have been effected through the media by the Western powers.

That's what this country was founded on, not your wacko idea of a socialist state.

As a resident of the socialist state of California, tell us about the great prosperity of your state.

He had praise for Luther's role in providing inspiration for creative and meaningful activity in socialist Germany — an impetus for Christians and non-Christians alike in the upbuilding of a socialist state.

does anyone wonder why people are moving out of this socialist state?

This work quickly developed into a critique of the East German approach to city building and led ultimately to a conceptual approach to portraiture of the Socialist state.

Not exact matches

An avowed socialist, though in his own words not of the «authoritarian communist» kind, Sanders is so far the only Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

The arrests follow a purge that has seen more than 80 executives at PDVSA and its suppliers jailed for alleged corruption as the state firm's new chief, Major General Manuel Quevedo, has sought to stamp his authority on the sector - the financial lifeblood of Venezuela's unraveling socialist government.

It's the sort of socialist, welfare - state thinking that immediately kicks off that North American reflex of: «Why wouldn't everyone just abuse this system?»

Cuba reconciled with the United States in part due to Venezuela's diminished energy clout (and of course limited ability to provide a socialist alternative to the Americans).

Mark Thompson interviews Film Maker Yale Strom about his movie American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs and Lashaya Darisaw, Michigan's candidate for State Representative.

The minister heads the state oil company PDVSA, which is in desperate need of a hike in fuel revenues and favorable financial ratings to fund imports of consumer goods and medical supplies for its citizens and to keep the socialist government's public services afloat.

Progressives — socialists, communist, facists - NONE of these adhere to Natural Law — rather, they trust in a State for deciding rights and laws.

Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: «The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.

I find it odious that just because I don't join your halfwitted socialist bandwagon, you assume that I hold all sorts of other opinions that I never stated, mostly due to the fact that I don't hold them.

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

The leader of the Hitler Youth stated «the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement» from the start, but «considerations of expedience made it impossible» publicly to express this extreme position.

Yet Rorty insists that such soaring flights of socialist devotion must be tethered to the «real politics» of incremental change in using the state to combat capitalist exploitation — capitalist exploitation being the religion of the right.

It was the abuse of power that shipwrecked the socialist states in Eastern Europe and not the many mistakes that could have been corrected.

If the election results are substantially different than what the alphabet national networks have been telling us, then we know Obama has promised change and delivered to us a socialist - totalitarian police state where the media and journalists are under the complete control and financing of the White House.

«Second, Oxford faced the new problems created by the National Socialist regime in Germany: problems of church and state; church and race; and, by anticipation, church and war.

Now the Islamic En - Nahda was elected by many people of Tunisia and there is high danger that they change Tunisia into an Islamic dictatorship like the NSDAP changed Germany into a National Socialist state.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

The pledge of allegiance was created by a socialist named Francis Bellamy who came up with it in order to instill in his own words «the virtue of obedience to the state» into impressionable children.

Today we witness police states and military dictatorships that justify their actions by appealing to the necessities of «socialist revolution,» «national security,» or both.

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 economics.

The toll of industrial accidents, according to the state statistics of China, amounted 20,000 in 1994 and the majority of these tragic cases happened in the coastal regions where foreign investments were concentrated under the socialist market economy.

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 participation.

He refers, with more than a little disdain, to those of us who «still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti-individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits» best fulfill Christian morality.

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.

Arguing that it was theologically justifiable to have a patriotic love for China, and for Christians to be loyal citizens of the emerging socialist state, the movement declared that the Chinese Protestant church should be self - governing, self - supporting and self - propagating — hence the term «Three - Self.»

The party must not try to abolish religion by decree; instead, it should attempt to guide religious people and institutions so that they will «center all their will and strength on the common goal of building a modernized, powerful socialist state.»

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

I have also heard from Comrades at our Communist News Network (CNN) and TASS (the AP), they along with the Revolutionaries at More Socialist Nonsense Broadcast Continually (MSNBC) have collected many rubles from the front and are building a statue of your likeness which will be place in the Gulag that will house the enemies of the state who watch FOX news, read Drudge and listen to the evil Capitalist propaganda on Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beckl.

The isolationist party, best known by the name of America First, was in fact a jumble of people with a whole variety of agendas: there were those who believed that the United States should have no truck with Europe and its wars, there were socialists who found nothing to choose among the imperialists on both sides, and there were those who believed that Germany's was not necessarily the wrong side to be on, this latter group itself being a kind of odd amalgam of Anglophobes, anti-Semites who said that the war against Hitler was merely a Jewish war, and immigrant German patriots.

Let me explain what the term means... King B Hussien of the United Socialist States of America (USSA) is forcing his will on the people in the same manner as all previous dictatorships.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

(Therefore, I am not a socialist, if socialism means state ownership of the means of production.

The four concepts were praxis, the poor, oppression, and socialism, and the Latin American proposition was that through the practical work of building socialist societies, the poor of the third world would throw off the oppression they suffered at the hands of the first world, especially the United States.

We were an odd combination of declining imperial power, industrialized hell - hole, and socialist welfare state, which made a surprising number of people content all at the same time.

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).

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.

In the Marxist - Leninist interpretation of Marxist theory, developed primarily by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, religion is seen as negative to human development, and socialist states that follow a Marxist - Leninist variant are atheistic and explicitly antireligious.

The Church itself was organised like a family and those who suppose that the monastic system of welfare provided a kind of state or Socialist welfare are sorely mistaken.

Two important amendments proposed by the Socialists and Greens, calling for EU legislation to specifically state that Member States are free to go further and ban the advertising of follow formula and baby foods, provoked the most debate with much support from the majority of speakers.

And India was historically a socialist state under the governance of the INC, but it became too bureaucratic and fell to the corruption that was left over from the rule of the British East India Company, so India was then reformed by a BJP government into a more capitalist economy.