Sentences with phrase «socialist countries of»

I finally broke with DSOC, however, after visiting and studying in socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia.
The capitalist system is not perfect — but you have to admit that more different peoples see hope in the US than the socialist countries of Europe or Latin America...

Not exact matches

The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate.
Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support of as much as 10 percent of the electorate — and could help deny that country's Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.
A member of the German liberal party blamed the country's Socialist Party for the recent collapse in coalition talks to form a new government.
The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate — despite the experienced lawmaker not being involved in recent coalition talks.
Last month's G20 meetings in Paris brought into tighter focus the ambitions of International Monetary Fund chief, and failed 2006 French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss - Kahn to run in that country's next election as the Socialist party candidate.
Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.
This was widely interpreted as a rebuke to France's newly minted Socialist president, who is making good on campaign promises to tax the hell out of high - income citizens as a means of bridging the country's yawning deficits.
Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death of Hugo Chávez, the socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.
Mainly the socialist social programs of the U.S. will (more) rapidly bankrupt the country if the U.S. government can't continue to print dollars to inflate it's way out of it's incredible mountain of debt.
Venezuela, the most hardline socialist country in the American continent, is in a steep crisis in recent years ever since oil prices fell below the $ 100 area in 2014 down to a third of the price in early 2016.
In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.
At the 19th Communist Party National Congress held in October, President Xi unveiled a bold, long - term vision to transform China into a «great modern socialist country» — a global leader in innovation and trade that boasts sustainable growth, a cleaner environment and reduced inequality — by the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic in 2049.
The OPEC member's socialist leader wants to restructure the ailing country's foreign debt, putting an alleged drug trafficker in charge of working out how.
Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.
Critics of President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government point to the administration's own missteps for the country's spiraling quadruple digit inflation, making common goods too expensive for most residents.
That's what this country was founded on, not your wacko idea of a socialist state.
Laws and socialist policies passed in the interests of the Christian Faith have largely ruined this country.
It is perhaps no accident that the Left has not yet produced an analysis of the pattern of manipulation in countries with socialist régimes.
As much as any Israeli novelist of his generation, Amos Oz is responsible for liberating his country's fiction from the heavy hand of politically driven «socialist realism.»
To cause contention & distract us from spending time with what is really important to the WORLD right now, because If America falls in the hands of the progressives, & be com a socialist country, we are all in trouble!
The Church has always felt that economic injustice occurrs due to the lack of free markets worldwide as the world's most poor live in socialist countries.
Full socialist countries match the despotic feudalisms in tyranny while surpassing them in social services but also in the thoroughness of their suppression.
In fact, Argentina was a battlefield between leftist socialists and right - wing security forces during much of Francis» early career in the country, where he was a Jesuit priest and later archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The liberation viewpoint stressed pulling control over the natural resources of poor countries out from under Western power so that the developmental process could continue under autonomous, socialist political systems.
And they do permit many of the efficiencies of free enterprise in large sectors of the economy and so tend to have a better standard of living than comparable countries which are full socialist.
Continuing commitment to industrial growth in both capitalist and socialist countries is pushing us toward a situation where the nightmare I have pictured could become the only possibility of survival.
Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our Country's Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view of religion as a response to the human fear of the terrors of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power of the upper classes and justify the plight of workers and the poor.
How can a socialist get that close to the center of capitalist power in this country without losing his soul?
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America could still be the greatest country in the world but it will not happen by men or any socialist regime, it will be a act of God.
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.
I am working on a plan like this in Canada (as there are far less people and it is easier to get through) because being from a socialist country it is vital for people to feel the money they pay in taxes is being spent on things that benifit them, even if it is only a percentage of the overall amount.
What confronts us is not a series of separate crises in industry, economics and ecology but a single basic defect that lies deep in the design of modern society, be it in capitalist, socialist, developing or developed countries.
After the disintegration of socialist regimes in 1989, this ideology dominates the world and the Third World countries have fallen in line.
So they want to leave because of a «socialist» healthcare system, and go to a country that has an even MORE «socialist» healthcare system.
In this, it mirrors the extreme right, which equates Barack Obama with Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright, showing (in the minds of those who traffic in this sort of thing) that our President is an anti-American socialist out to destroy the country.
The experience of the socialist countries, he acknowledged, makes clear that the marketplace distributes goods better than «the queues of a planned economy.»
But that case becomes easier to make on simply empirical grounds as data about the ecologically devastating conditions in both traditional, pretechnological societies and in the antitheological socialist societies of the former Eastern European countries becomes available.
America has nothing remotely comparable to the «socialist» countries of Western Europe.
Other countries can offer extended maternity leave with pay because of the socialist type government welfare systems (provided by very high taxes).
An important point to note is that the concept of a country is fairly new; I have read, and agree, that modern states did not become such an important unit of human organization until the Great Depression in the 1930s; at that time the problems facing them - broken economies and socialist movements - the country level government was the only organization existing that could solve these problems while the existing power structure stayed in power.
These days I am amused rather than offended when I come under attack from some Conservative backwoodsmen — one recently identified me as a member of the Socialist Workers Party: that, for advocating policies which would be considered mainstream in successful Scandinavian countries or Germany or France or even, in that socialist paradise, the UniteSocialist Workers Party: that, for advocating policies which would be considered mainstream in successful Scandinavian countries or Germany or France or even, in that socialist paradise, the Unitesocialist paradise, the United States.
From my perspective I was born in a western EU country where the parties that came after the fall of the dictatorship (and that still remain the biggest parties to this day) are named Social - Democracy Party, and Socialist Party.
To understand the nature of the social order and state power in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (and their opposition to it), British socialists looked to the country's past and its evolution to the current stage.
Interestingly, this protest movement does not seem to be drawing inspiration from a purely left - wing or right - wing agenda; although it is the «founding fathers» of the Israeli right that are frequently quoted and praised (perhaps nostalgically) rather than the country's socialist founders.
Chile is example of Socialists coming to power peacefully is a bourgeois undemocratic country due to «system fault» at preventing them from doing so.
What's more, in comparison to previous governments, it suffers from a substantial problem in the shape of Plahotniuc, who suffers from the lowest levels of popular support of any political figure in the country, but nevertheless maintains large levels of influence in the media and has a close relationship with both decision - makers in Bucharest and the Socialist Party in Chisinau.
The Social Democrats may be a part of the European Socialists, but on identity politics (especially on nationalism, LGBT, migration and church - state relations) they have been solidly conservatism, catering to the country's prevailing authoritarian social values.
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