Sentences with phrase «old socialist»

In the process, many of the old socialist themes — e.g., redistribution, power and property, planning and democracy — are updated and linked up with new issues.

The old socialist belief that problems can be solved by throwing money at them has replaced a commitment to real change.

An instant audience success was Dress as a Maid, beginning as an old socialist realism film, turning to into a gender - oriented flick of transsexual identity, and ending as a love story amid a convulsive social landscape.

It was that old socialist Nigel Lawson who equalised it with Income Tax in the 1980s.

The American Communist party never generated the broad popular support that the old Socialist party had.

His spirit lives on in the magazine he ran, News Weekly, which now reports on» how the globalist powers are using environmental scares to achieve the same ends that the older socialists could not quite pull off».

Not exact matches

Clearly he concluded most of those five MLCs backed the Barnett - led Liberals who, in good old - fashioned socialist style, opposed Western Power being split, most especially its generating and sales divisions, as Carnegie recommended.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

«Right now, millions of young people are turned on by a 74 - old - year socialist scolding Wall Street; millions of others by a reality - TV star with a 1950s view of women.

Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a fifty - year - old lawyer educated at Cambridge, calls himself a «democratic socialist.»

The new generation is going to put an end to this devious monetary deception and all of the old «Champagne Socialists» sitting in the front of the aircraft debating the horrors of capitalism with two bankers and a parliamentary aide while sipping on bubbly, feet up and caviar on the side table, are ALL in for a very rude awakening.

Tocqueville's aristocratic age, however, did not have political parties of this sort in it; the affiliations he had in mind were more or less inherited ones that pertained to family name and rank... There are still echoes of that... however, the mid-twentieth-century socialist revolutions that occurred throughout the region... dismantled much of that old order, but without firmly establishing the individual in its place.

Indeed, this age - old dilemma is at the heart of much contemporary political debate between democratic socialists and democratic capitalists in modern Western societies.

Both the Torah [«Old» testament] and the Greek «New» testament are filled with socialist concepts.

I'd rather have a socialist pope than a capitalist pope, and who cares what a bitter old drug addict thinks anyway?

It amazes me to see people repeating the same old canard, that the fascist Nazi party was actually Communist or Socialist.

Although few specifics were given for such an economic plan — and no suggestions on how to bring about the «voluntary liquidation» of the old system — the magazine was clearly championing a socialist ideal.

Frank Strang is, as Dr. Dysart notes, «an old - type Socialist,» «relentlessly self - improving.»

In his celebrated «Answer to an Inquiry of the Protestant Consistory of Brandenburg» (1919), the 33 - year - old pastor made it clear that he believed a new age in Western history was dawning, and that this age would be, in some sense, socialist.

He calls the latter liberalism rather than socialism, but his advocacy of massive government programs favoring an «unsubtle, crude, old - fashioned redistribution of wealth, through taxation and public spending» is unmistakably socialist in inspiration and consequence.

In addition the dominant secularism of many of the immigrant socialist intellectuals did not sit well with the evangelical idealistic socialism of the old Americans.

In the Iowa Caucus, the 74 - year - old Democratic Socialist shocked the political world by fighting Clinton to a virtual tie, 49.9 % to 49.6 %.

It carries such a strong invocation of the «liberal metropolitan elite» character - type that the phrase was deliberately employed during the last election by none other than David Cameron with his jibe about «the same old condescending, bossy, interfering, we - know - best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages».

Only David Miliband hinted that the question offered an old shibboleth, before showing that he was prepared to genuflect before it anyway in being «happy to sign up to» the assertion that «Labour is a democratic socialist party», a statement left in new Labour's new Clause Four in 1995.

Smith's pitch is that he is «radical and credible»; he promises to continue Corbyn's mission to radicalise Labour, offering voters «good old - fashioned socialist policies».

The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the left of the Labour Party, such as The Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The actual hardcore Corbynites are very few in number - the old Campaign Group of socialist MPs is pretty much dead.

Asanuma was the head of the Japanese Socialist Party until his assassination by right wing student, 17 - year - old Otoya Yamaguchi, with a «wakizashi» sword on the stage of a televised rally for the forthcoming Lower House election.

Miller tied Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and finished ahead of the Presidential candidates from older and more established parties like the Reform Party, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, Grassroots Party and the Prohibition Party.

The soon - to - be prime minister has warned the six deputy leadership candidates not to retreat to the «soft options» of old Labour after one of the hopefuls spoke of Labour's «proud» socialist traditions.

Thus, Corbyn's comments brought criticism from unprecedented quarters - Novara, the heavily pro-Corbyn media site, broadcast a show where three of the four guests criticised his remarks; foreign policy writer David Wearing warned that «casting around for a socialist alibi for deferring to anti-immigration sentiment is entirely the wrong approach»; journalist Rachel Shabi (somewhat older than the 2010 generation) criticised his «divisive» rhetoric.

Richard Leonard, who is only a few months into his tenure as Scottish Labour's seventh leader in the past decade, might deny being a Marxist, but his speech certainly served up some old - time socialist religion.

It looks like more socialist review panels and just plain old NYS business as usual.

Many Woodstockers of old, be they Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, Ban - the - Bomb agitators, Civil Rights activists, or LGBT pioneers, would have agreed.

I just hope he doesn't become a socialist when he gets older and have to change it.

She's a self supporting adult woman too, not some socialist 26 year old in his parents basement.I encountered plenty of them during the 2008 primary.

Depending on which newspaper you read, his supporters are depicted as one of old - fashioned socialists following union orders, affluent Islington drawing - room liberals, excitable young social media types, or even Tories in disguise.

Its post-Labour incarnation, the Socialist Party, is a poor shadow of its old self.

And to equate them to Progress is just silly — the Labour Party has always been home to socialists, social democrats, social liberals, centrists and even right wingers (I remember some of the trade union right and also old Labour right wingers like Bob Mellish)-- long may that continue!

Starting in 2008, the Constitution, Green, Libertarian and Socialist Parties have been ballot - qualified in Ohio, not because they submitted a petition, or met the vote test, but because the old ballot access law was declared unconstitutional in 2006 and the state hadn't replaced it.

An old Labour that takes voters for granted, that assumes it is owed power, and an old Labour, led by Jeremy Corbyn lurching to the left, a hard - line puritanically socialist vision straight out of the 1970s.

The defeat at the polls had set the party back 30 years, Lord Hutton said, blaming the lack of public appetite for an «old school socialist menu».

A decade after his death, his son was in Nicaragua, working in support of the kind of socialist government his father's old colleagues tried to prevent in Latin America.»

«Yes,» they will have exclaimed into their polenta and soil smoothies, «Now both candidates in the Labour leadership election are hard - line, proper, old - school socialists!»

In the memoranda submitted at the meeting on behalf of Oyo, Ogun and Lagos states» monarchs, Alaafin of Oyo said Nigeria must be restructured as soon as possible to avoid a break - up like the one that the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics experienced.

While Socialist Passions provides streaming webcam chat, and while everyone in the network is 18 years and older, the webcam video option provided is restricted to PG - 13.

I also led a group of housing - project boys in various activities one afternoon a week at an old - line settlement house in East Cambridge led by the charismatic Elsa Baldwin, a chain - smoking, tireless, compassionate socialist, community organizer, and unbending poverty warrior.

To my surprise, though many «old school» history teachers have lately chosen retirement over delivering the watered down, devoid - of - hard - facts, PowerPoint - driven lectures that are the hallmarks of what some educators call «socialist studies departments,» U.S. student performance has stayed the same.

In the near future, in an Utopian socialist country, England, where everyone has to work (except the ill or old), whether the job makes any sense, or not, a group of teenagers like to party without limits, at night.

The likelihood of a good old - fashioned correction appears to be particularly low now that the Feds have shown their socialist tendencies during the Bear Stearns crisis.»