Using the impersonal language of the public realm, ranging from the quasi-mysticism of corporate mission statements to the maxims of
revolutionary socialism, his work exhorts us to believe in it.
While his youthful dreams of
revolutionary Socialism were disappointed, he never abandoned his belief that art has a mission to change the world for the better.
He said some on the hard - left see Labour as a «vehicle for
revolutionary socialism» and they are «not remotely interested in winning elections».
Venezuela is a woeful reminder that no country is so rich that it can't be driven into the ground by
revolutionary socialism.
«They see the Labour party as a vehicle for
revolutionary socialism, and they're not remotely interested in winning elections, and that's a problem.»
Revolutionary Socialism (e.g. Communism) where a militant minority forces a change in government tends to remain autocratic as no real input is desired from the populace (i.e. counter-revolutionary).
Not exact matches
It is that affirmation that provides the theoretical basis of the
revolutionary struggle for a democratic humanistic
socialism.
The Russian Revolution symbolically linked
socialism with foreign
revolutionaries in American eyes.
Though «
revolutionary» and «atheistic» would continue to be negative terms used to characterize
socialism, it was the attribute of collectivism or statism, in contrast to allegedly American individualism, that would be the central negative image.
«
Revolutionary» could never be an entirely negative attribute in America and if that were the only problem with
socialism it is possible that it might have been domesticated.
The varieties of
socialism that attracted a flurry of interest in the second quarter of the i9th century, namely the theories of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier, were not
revolutionary in any violent sense; they were easily reconciled with religious and idealistic philosophies; and they each gave a high consideration to individual autonomy.
It could be argued, after all, that the violent secularizing dynamics of the nineteenth century, which then fed into some of the most horrendous aspects of the twentieth century (I am thinking of coercive
socialism especially), were products of the «transatlantic»
revolutionary cultures that grew out of the most egregiously distressing aspects of the globalized European engagement.
The
revolutionary changes of 1989 - 90 in Eastern Europe, and their echoes on other continents, have helped provoke the speculation about the bankruptcy of
socialism.
Indeed the critical portrayal of republicanism as a system only suited to the small cities of ancient Greece bears some resemblance to the Leninist - type argument that anarchism was a primitive form of
socialism that had no place in a
revolutionary movement or a modern industrial economy.
Labour Party minister Peter Hain [219] has written in support of libertarian
socialism, identifying an axis involving a «bottom - up vision of
socialism, with anarchists at the
revolutionary end and democratic socialists [such as himself] at its reformist end» as opposed to the axis of state
socialism with Marxist — Leninists at the
revolutionary end and social democrats at the reformist end.
Communism Paper Philosophy Term: From Past till Present Communism, which is also described as «
Revolutionary Proletarian
Socialism» or «Marxism,» is both a political and economic philosophy.
In the first phase of his career (1939 - 1948), Greenberg was a Trotskyite socialist (a vision of
socialism based on the ideas of the exiled and ultimately murdered Russian
revolutionary and thinker Leon Trotsky) with an interest in the social and psychological background of the artist and in theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans Hofmann.
The exhibition aims to reflect upon the legacy of internationalism — understood as the labour - movement theory inspired by Marxism and libertarian
socialism, grounded in
revolutionary processes, and advocating international solidarity — as a global emancipatory project.
The site the artist chose is significant with regard to his field research; different themes and areas of interest in Zink Yi's work intersect in the portrait of Havana: the utopian visions of social
revolutionaries, the stark reality of
socialism, the cults and rites of the Afro - Cuban population.
The global ecological crisis sprang forth full - blown at roughly the same historical moment that global capital — welcoming the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the decay of the
revolutionary process in China — was claiming a definitive victory over
socialism.