Sentences with phrase «think socialism»

@Rathony yes, I think Socialism is more democratic than Capitalism in any case.

«I do not think socialism has a future in this country at all, although I suppose instinctively my economics are socialist, as my ethics are conservative and my politics are liberal.

I believe you wanted to say that You don't think Socialism and Communism are legitimate or maybe successful forms of government or social order.

Marxism - Leninism is an oxymoron, no one can deny Lenin didn't understand Marxism but he distorted Marx whenever it suited his own ends, for instance Socialism became the interim stage to Communism for Lenin only when he realised Communism was an impossibility in Russia, infact Lenin admitted that's all that had been achieved in Russia was state Capitalism (1918) and Lenin himself thought Socialism / Communism wouldn't be established by the working classes for 500 years if left to their own devices.Sadly Socialism and the Russian workers have paid a heavy price for Lenin's distortions of Marxism.

Not exact matches

«Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era» sounds a lot better than «Techno National Socialism» after all.

The common thread is that Australia's farmers think they can control the marketplace, just like the good old days when collectivism and agrarian socialism were popular theories — like back in the 1930s.

In addition, members of the congress voted unanimously to revise the party's constitution to include «Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.»

Considering Jesus effectively advocated for socialism, I think it's safe to assume he'd also advocate for healthcare reform.

Everyone was crazy for National Socialism and if you defied the current thinking people looked at you as beyond the pale.

I guess when you grow up in a huge palace as the son of a duke (just not the first son) you tend to think «socialism» is bad.

Unlike Marx and others who tried to turn socialism into a science and thought they knew what would happen, Rorty's religion is radically open to, adamantly insistent upon, the new — making possible a life of «pure, joyous hope.»

Thomas's thought, wrote one biographer, was a mixture of Christianity, anarchism and Marxism (Bernard J. Johnpoll, Pacifist's Progress: Norman Thomas and the Decline of American Socialism, Quadrangle, 1970).

Not the socially conservative, servant of feel good capitalism that is so prevalent in the U. S. And let's look at it this way, if that mysoginist, drug addicted coward, Rush Limbaugh thinks what the Pope is doing is socialism, then the Pope must be doing something right.

He thought his son's decision to be a minister was a waste of time and money, not to mention the young man's commitment to pacifism and socialism.

Social Christianity (which on the whole is simple socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (which, while solidly thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.

For much the same reasons, it is simply fallacious, I think, to say that socialism must take the form of a secular religion.

Despite the theological appeal of socialism, it did not carry the day in Christian thought.

(citizens vs. elected officials) That's why I think this country is RIPE for socialism.

Dr. Bakunin, a historian specializing in the history of social thought, is the author of Pierre Leroux and the Birth of Democratic Socialism (Revisionist Press, 1976).

In his «loose ends» chapter Macquarrie addresses the role the rise of National Socialism played in Heidegger's thought and, as I have said, treats it all too cursorily.

It's like all lovers of Socialism: They think it's great as long as the government is not coming after their money.

I think the primary difference between Coots as being representative of Christians and Pol Pot representing atheists is that Coots, like many Christians, claimed to believe in a specific creed whereas there is no atheist creed, Pol Pot pushed a radical form of agrarian socialism on his people.

Those pursuing the same concerns today, as in the growing movement of «Christians for Socialism» in Latin America and elsewhere, will find in the early Tillich a valuable ally and mentor when they become more familiar with this aspect of his thought.

If you guys think Obama is Socialist, you don't know what socialism is.

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

Frankly, I think it is a liberal treatise about individuality, in contrast to Atlas Shrugged, where she just goes a little crazy against socialism.

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

Socialism ought not to be confused with Communism, which is clearly unchristian in its foundations and methods; yet two decades ago some Christians thought they discerned in Communism the way to economic justice.

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I am sure that the socialism being preached by the radical sectarians on the far left, modeled on the ideas of Fidel Castro or the thought of Mao Tse - tung, leaders of two societies about as different from the United States as it is possible to be, is not the answer.

Rejecting both utopian socialism and utopian individualism, he opted for a balance in the tradition of American thought that went back to John Winthrop.

@kr, that you think atheism is synonymous with socialism or communism only exposes your own ignorance.

In this context a remark by Croce about socialism takes on a particular interest: «Thus not only political opinion but the whole of Italian thought and culture was permeated and invigorated by Marxian socialism.

But I do not think that this kind of Socialism is in any way peculiar to me.

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.

It is sad that Harrington did not live to see the transformations now taking place in Eastern Europe and Latin America as the people there struggle for (or stumble toward) democracy, for he would have been vindicated in his critique of the betrayals of the best dreams of socialism by the Leninist - Stalinist deviations that, he thinks, subverted the more promising aspects of Marx.

The history of Christian thought on socialism can shed light on the question.

In the West, Reaganites and Thatcherites — whether old conservatives or neoconservatives — think they are entitled to dance a bit on the grave of socialism.

At the time, most people thought the measures against the Jews were merely «childhood diseases» of National Socialism.

I don't think there was one true version of socialism, and the gradual shift in agenda began rather earlier, and from 1983 - 92 made a lot of sense.

I think democratic republicanism does have a lot in common with libertarian socialism - both want to end the tyranny of capital, so to speak, without creating a new tyranny of the supposedly benign socialist state.

One alternative I can think of is state socialism, and speaking personally my objections to that are not philosophical but pragmatic.

But the strand of democratic socialist thought that has proved resilient is that of Tony Crosland's «The Future of Socialism» rather than Bevan's «In Place of Fear».

Orwell could have been thinking of Shaw in his caricatured complaint that «the mere words «Socialism» and «Communism» draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit juice - drinker, nudist, sandal - wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, «nature cure» quack, pacifist and feminist in England.»

What advantages do you think maximal republicanism has as a liberating ideal or slogan as against, for instance, socialism or anarchism?

I think it is unusual to not have totalitarian communism (not to be equated with moderate forms of socialism) viewed as an evil.

Roger: I don't think this specific kind of statism is built into the DNA of social democracy or socialism.

I think you are at your most expansive and brilliant when you try to reconcile the Nation with the fundamentally international socialism I am not sure you will ever succeed but the effort is always worth reading.

And a recent New York Times / CBS News poll showed that 52 percent of Americans think the Obama administration's actions are leading America more toward socialism (38 percent disagree).

He said: «Being a goalkeeper is the hardest thing because you have to concentrate for the whole of the match and hopefully most of the time you haven't got much to do — you start thinking about socialism...»