Sentences with phrase «rather than capitalism»

In the real world it is state control rather than capitalism that gets in the way of competition.

In 2009, Thiel wrote that women's suffrage had rendered American democracy incompatible with capitalism, and that democracy, rather than capitalism, ought to go.

Not exact matches

He calls it «conscious capitalism,» a mode of doing business that attempts to create value for all stakeholders — employees, customers, community, shareholders — rather than sublimating the needs of the first three to those of the last.

Under Pension Fund Capitalism, employees are encouraged to think of themselves as capitalists in miniature — and provide for their retirement by employee stock ownership programs rather than saving up their wages themselves or having pensions financed on a pay - as - you - go basis out of future production.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

Wehner and Brooks assert «that capitalism is best at doing what it is most often accused of doing worst: distributing wealth to people at every social stratum rather than simply to elites.

Capitalism requires that money find its most fruitful use, which means that news product has become entertainment rather than enlightenment.

If these ancient rites hadn't been co-opted by capitalism, hadn't morphed into pastel M&M s, plastic grass and My Little Ponies with bunny ears, I might find it a relief to preach on the fecundity of spring, rather than trying to tell the story of a living, breathing dead man.

Rather than admit the failure of capitalism and pursue socialism, FDR» like other Presidents before him» sought to solve domestic problems by overseas economic expansion.

We need to remember today that whatever else he was, Niebuhr was «the troubler of our [national] conscience,» rather than the composer of Te Deums in praise of capitalism.

It was capitalism for the sake of the common good rather than the other way around.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

Rather than releasing the autonomous individual and placing him in a context of genuine participatory community, socialism has been seen as a system that crushes the individual under a centralized bureaucratic structure even more effectively than corporate capitalism.

Scientists oriented toward socialism or Marxism (e.g., Bernal, Needham, Haldane) have complained that within capitalism the direction of science has been determined by corporation profits rather than the public welfare.5 The solutions they offer stress political controls, which run the risk of imposing particular ideologies on the structure of science.

In truth, rather than some aberration, slavery may be one of the most representative consequences of global capitalism.

I tend to think that a fully consistent capitalism would recognize that those who benefit most directly from this training should bear the cost, rather than society as a whole.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

Or, is his discontent not rather with what we now call capitalism, and the habit of measuring values by money, and of making individual or family self - interest rather than brotherly - sisterly love the motive.

That Marr imagines that the evils caused by capitalist «excesses» are a «betrayal» of something more essential to capitalism, rather than just natural expressions of the possibilities inherent within it, demonstrates a deep incoherence in his reasoning.

This is at least as much a commentary rather than it is an answer, concerning what it would take to meaningfully count deaths attributable to a given grouping or category, such as capitalism vs. communism, monarchy vs. republic, religion vs. secularism, etc..

Defining a model of inclusive prosperity and progressive capitalism that treats business as part of the solution rather than the problem ought to be at the forefront of Labour's approach.

In light of the clear moral failings of contemporary capitalism, it might seem peculiar to suggest that the independence of companies should be strengthened rather than weakened.

Capitalism - an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

I hope all of the candidates hoping to succeed David Cameron will appear before this caucus during the leadership election and be quizzed on their ideas for reforming capitalism, increasing housebuilding, bringing the «undeserved rich» down to size and harnessing tomorrow's technologies for popular rather than sectional gain.

Rather than focusing on a singular notion of economic growth, this body of research recognizes at least two distinct branches of capitalism.

Welsh Labour, taking its lead from the two Eds, tends towards tribalism rather than challenging the values of capitalism.

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.

David Cameron will tonight set out a vision for a «truly popular capitalism» in a speech calling for greater equality and a government focus on «recapitalising the poor rather than just the banks».

The film efficiently dramatizes the road leading to the publishing of Marx and Engel's monumental The Communist Manifesto, the 1848 political pamphlet that diagnosed capitalism as a corrupt construct rather than as an inevitable outgrowth of civilized society.

He inhabits the worst of capitalism and Getty values tangible commodities such as Vermeer paintings rather than people or his own family.

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

The boom - bust cycle is normal to Capitalism and should be enjoyed, rather than avoided by policymakers.

Rather than volatility being a negative, with capitalism it is a positive.

Rather than hawking expensive face masks and other dressed - up forms of capitalism, Wallace and Ojala's work focuses on the specific ways the queer community comforts and cares for each other, on an individual and communal basis as well as yes, actual self - care.

To my mind the Occupy Wall Street Movement is novel in the way it has initiated a systemic critique that attempts to connect the dots between corporate capitalism and politics, both domestic and foreign — hence the proliferation of demands (rather than a lack thereof), from «stop the wars» to «tax the rich».

Indeed, it could be argued that neo-liberal feminism operating within today's model of capitalism privileges the individual over the collective, and is disenfranchising women artists by placing too much emphasis on autonomous agency rather than political agency as a group.

Rather than bring the global economy in for a soft landing after the collapse of industrial capitalism by using the rising information sector to spread wealth, the ruling classes chose to do what they always do: they exploited the situation for short - term gain, grabbing whatever they could for themselves.

And in addition, think about all the wasted energy the «climate community» spent mitigating the impact of «deniers,» when «skeptics» could have helped out by listening more carefully to the «climate community,» and trying to understand «the climate community's» arguments, and adding to progress on increasing our understanding of the causes of climate variability and change — rather than apologizing or ignoring the input from scientists like Fred Singer — who deliberately lifts a conditional clause from a larger sentence, divorces it completely from context, and creates a fraudulent quotation in order to deliberately deceive, or Ross McKitrick who slanders other scientists on purely speculative conclusions about their motivations, or guest - posters at WUWT who call BEST «media whores,» or the long line of denizens at Climate Etc. who falsely claim that the «climate community» ignores all uncertainties towards the goal of serving a socialist, eco-Nazi agenda to destroy capitalism.

Surely this money could be directed away from big business and into small scale locally owned co-operatives that benefit the community rather than simply feeding classic capitalism and generating massive wealth for a few directors and owners?

We got hosed precisely because people would rather blame the government than accept the fact that capitalism is not perfect.

It had been depoliticised, and rather than emphasising alternatives to capitalism, became preoccupied with identity, tradition and social order — tropes that belonged to conservative thought in previous generations.

Browne seems to have thought that the fall of the Iron Curtain, rather than being a victory for Democracy and Capitalism over Communism and Totalitarianism, was a opportunity to find a «middle ground» between them (this is what «New Labor» and the Clinton style Democrats in the 90's thought, too).

As much as we all love these little diatribes that you like to launch into with such gusto, it seems this one is more a stretch than usual — even considering how much you normally stretch things to fit your rather simplistic left v. right, capitalism - is - god view of the universe.

That's what I was getting at with the medium chill — not just chilling out and working less, «taking it easy» or whatever, but trying to live, to break free of the soul - numbing expectations and routines of late capitalism and instead construct a life rich with relationships and experiences rather than, y ’ know, bigger and bigger flat - screen TVs.

Just need to re invent capitalism to be orientated to social and environmental outcomes rather than monetary ones — and we're there

Of course any corrupt practice needs to be regulated but in my view we have to ensure that barter and sharing amongst each other is encouraged rather than punished if we are to develop a better society beyond the bad and greedy side of capitalism!

There are many Marxists who believe that capitalism has some way to run before it collapses on its own contradictions — the revolution of 1917 was a few hundred years too early and in any case Russia was still feudal rather than capitalist.