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| | SOCIALISM - LoveToKnow Article on SOCIALISM |
 | | But state socialism, in the strict sense of the action of the central supreme authority, is limited by the Federal constitution, and any functions unassigned to the central authority by the constitution fall to the separate states. | | | The declaration of the Social Democratic congress at Wyden, Switzerland, in 1880, that their aims should be furthered by every means instead of the old phrase by every lawful means, was a natural rejoinder to the law that deprived them of the lawful means; and it seems to have had no evil consequences. | | | In 1890 the reichstag refused to renew the law of 1878 for a fifth period; and finally in 1899 it repealed the law forbidding the amalgamation of workmens unions, and specially aimed at the new socialistic unions, the natural allies of the social democrats. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Socialism |
| | And the leaders of Socialism have not been slow to emphasize the lesson and to extend the argument, with sufficient plausibility, towards state monopoly and the absolutism of the majority. | | | State control and even state ownership are not necessarily Socialism: they become so only when they result in or tend towards the prohibition of private ownership not only of "natural monopolies", but also of all the sources of wealth. | | | Socialism, of itself and by itself, can do nothing to diminish or discipline the immediate and materialistic lust of men, because Socialism is itself the most exaggerated and universalized expression of this lust yet known to history. |
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| | Socialism |
| | (8) The Supreme Court judge, David Brewer, was one of the country's leading opponents of socialism. | | | This is the offer of Socialism: the righting of the centuries of wrong the producers have suffered, the dawn of a genuine democracy, peace instead of war, sufficiency instead of suffering, life raised above the level of appetite, a chance at last for the good in people to attain their normal development. | | | While this spirit of socialism has caused apprehension in some quarters, it has been joyfully received by a certain class of people who do not desire to acquire competence in the ordinary and honest manner and gladly seize any excuse for agitating the public mind on the chance of putting money in their own pockets. |
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| | Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter |
| | Socialism propagates by slogans that articulate this philosophy without stating it directly. | | | Socialism is the agency of government seizing the fruits of capitalism, to give to those who have abandoned that responsibility in favor of government. | | | Socialism is the bastard child of communism, which cannot overturn capitalism directly, so must do so by the incremental stages of socialism. |
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| | Socialism - MSN Encarta |
| | In Scandinavia, candidates of the Social Democratic parties of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were elected to high positions early in the 1920s; these parties subsequently became dominant in Scandinavia. | | | Socialism, economic and social doctrine, political movement inspired by this doctrine, and system or order established when this doctrine is organized in a society. | | | The socialist doctrine demands state ownership and control of the fundamental means of production and distribution of wealth, to be achieved by reconstruction of the existing capitalist or other political system of a country through peaceful, democratic, and parliamentary means. |
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| | UTOPIAN SOCIALISTS |
| | "Introduction to 19th Century Socialism" by Paul Brians, 1998 | | | He gradually curbed his radicalism, calling only for State involvement in social programs and income redistribution. | | | After the failure of the revolution, Blanc was exiled to Britain until 1871. |
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| | Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Libertarian socialism is any one of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the State. | | | Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. | | | A primary concern of socialism (and, according to some, its defining feature) is social equality and an equitable distribution of wealth that would serve the interests of society as a whole. |
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| | Yellow |
| | Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back Spiner had help from a number of his colleages from Star Trek: TNG. | | | Yellow Bluff, Alabama Yellow Bluff is a town located in 2000 census, the population of the town is 181. | | | Yellow brick road The Yellow brick road is a stock phrase referent to a path which leads to a life of fantasy and carefr... |
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| | Ba'ath Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Ba'th claimed to speak for the entire Arab nation and in the course of the 1950s its influence spread to other Arab countries, with branches forming in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. | | | The leadership line was reflected in the position the congress adopted in favour of "considered unity" as opposed to the demands for "immediate unity" launched by the Socialist Unity Vanguard (later the Socialist Unity Movement), the Nasserists and the Arab Nationalist Movement. | | | The Arab Socialist Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب البعث العربيالاشتراكي) was founded in 1945 as a radical, left-wing, secular Arab nationalist political party. |
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| | Wikinfo National Socialism |
| | In this milieu, a Frenchman, in 1898, Maurice Barrès was the first to coin the term "national socialism" while standing for the candidacy for Nancy.. | | | Nationalism and socialism as a political force was born in France and born in one man Jean Jacques Rousseau. | | | National Socialism is a revolutionary ideology, movement, phenomena that combines nationalist ideals with socialist ideals as a matter of social change for the re-organization and progress of a society. |
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| | MSN Encarta - National Socialism |
| | The Reichstag was dissolved, and in the elections for its successor, held in November, the party vote declined to approximately 11.7 million and the party won only 196 seats. | | | The new party grew slowly, and principally in Bavaria. | | | The combined Social Democratic and Communist vote was more than 13 million, and together the Social Democrats and Communists won 221 seats; but as these parties were bitter opponents, the Nazis, despite their setback, were still the strongest party in the Reichstag. |
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| | Democratic Socialism |
| | Leninists argued that there was no possibility of a "democratic" road to socialism because the state inevitably served as an instrument of capitalist domination. | | | The gray drabness of state collectivism has little to do with the multi-colored pluralism of democratic socialism. | | | Radical critics of democratic socialism, such as Andre Gorz in the 1960s, contended that welfare state reforms only redistribute income and shore up capitalism, while "non-reformist reforms" which democratize control over capital (such as industry ownership, etc.) are central to the struggle for socialism. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Socialism |
| | And the leaders of Socialism have not been slow to emphasize the lesson and to extend the argument, with sufficient plausibility, towards state monopoly and the absolutism of the majority. | | | State control and even state ownership are not necessarily Socialism: they become so only when they result in or tend towards the prohibition of private ownership not only of "natural monopolies", but also of all the sources of wealth. | | | Socialism, of itself and by itself, can do nothing to diminish or discipline the immediate and materialistic lust of men, because Socialism is itself the most exaggerated and universalized expression of this lust yet known to history. |
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| | WHAT IS NATIONAL SOCIALISM? |
| | The banner of National Socialism was raised by upstarts from the lower and middle commanding ranks of the old army. | | | Bowing down before capitalism as a whole, the petty bourgeois declares war against the evil spirit of gain in the guise of the Polish Jew in a long-skirted caftan and usually without a cent in his pocket The pogrom becomes the supreme evidence of racial superiority. | | | They live on the periphery of large-scale industry and the banking system, and they live off the crumbs from the table of the monopolies and cartels, and off the spiritual alms of their theorists and professional politicians. |
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| | Democratic Socialism: A Transformational Project : SF Indymedia |
| | Democratic socialism has a unique chance in this situation to prove itself as a project of justice that opposes the functionality or instrumentalization of individuals for capital exploitation
Democratic socialism means acting for the social equality and participation of all individuals in the basic conditions for a self-determined life in social security. | | | In the majority of western European states, the social democratic parties elected into government in the 90s were voted out of office again like the representatives of neoliberal development. | | | Setting and observing social norms and sanctions are central in law. |
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| | Democratic socialism - encyclopedia article about Democratic socialism. |
| | A red carnation held in a closed fist is the international symbol of democratic socialism. | | | Many early varieties of socialism, particularly those stemming from the sans-culotte branch of French Revolutionary politics, took for granted democratic characteristics such as universal suffrage and equality before the law. | | | This tension between the revolutionary and evolutionary tendencies of democratic socialism can be seen in the Socialist Party USA The Socialist Party of the United States of America (SPUSA) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Socialism |
| | State control and even state ownership are not necessarily Socialism: they become so only when they result in or tend towards the prohibition of private ownership not only of "natural monopolies", but also of all the sources of wealth. | | | Socialism, of itself and by itself, can do nothing to diminish or discipline the immediate and materialistic lust of men, because Socialism is itself the most exaggerated and universalized expression of this lust yet known to history. | | | The State was never meant to appropriate to itself the main parental duties, it was rather meant to provide the parents, especially poor parents, with a wider, freer, healthier family sphere in which to be properly parental. |
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| | Ideology, Strategy, and Organization: Dyer Lum and the American Anarchist Movement |
| | Many of the anarchists who had come out of socialism were influenced by the Marxist account of classes, but there was still some division over whether anarchism should be organized as a proletarian movement, and even whether it was the proletariat or the "poor" who were revolutionary tinder. | | | He supported the right of anarchists to throw bombs as a revolutionary act, complaining only that Haymarket was an isolated incident, uncoordinated with other revolutionary acts. | | | Yet Lum's anarchist vision has a broader significance for, as an experienced activist in the labor movement, Lum had discerned the basic elements of any successful movement aiming at radical social change: a radical and rooted ideology, an effective and militant strategy, and an organization to promote the former and carry out the latter. |
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| | GI -- World War II Commemoration |
| | After initial gains in regional elections, the NPD failed to win a seat in the federal elections of 1969 and subsequently fell apart. | | | The nation's anxieties and confusion were exacerbated by the vindictive terms of the Treaty of Versailles and by the fear that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia would spread to Germany. | | | National Socialism was an amalgam of such disparate doctrines as these rather than a well-articulated, coherent political philosophy. |
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| | Libertarian socialism - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal |
| | The basic philosophy of libertarian socialism is summed up in the name: adherents believe that management of the common good (socialism) is necessary, but that this should be done in a manner that preserves individual liberty and avoids concentration of power or authority (libertarianism). | | | Libertarian socialism should not be confused with Libertarianism either: the two philosophies are only alike in their professed love of liberty, hence the similarity in name. | | | The critique of states is built on the same principle opposing concentration of authority, which according to anarchists inevitably leads to abuse. |
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| | Alfred Verdross and Othmar Spann: German Romantic Nationalism, National Socialism and International Law |
| | He concludes that customary law takes over the idea that State organs are accepted by international law when they are able to assert themselves internally and externally on territory. | | | When Verdross comes to examine the question whether there are international law rules on the origin of States and the significance of the institution of recognition he gives a long account of State practice on provinces breaking away from the `mother' country. | | | While natural law is necessary as a foundation of international law, legal positivism is correct to insist upon methodological purity, and law can only be effectively derived from higher legal norms. |
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| | Glossary of Organisations: So |
| | At a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation executive in December, 1884, the SDF executive voted 10-8, that it had no confidence in Hyndman, mainly as a result of his dictatorial style and control over the journal Justice. | | | In 1898, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was created to fight for workers rights in an organized way, and create a strategic plan for workers struggled based on Marxist theory. | | | It was destroyed by the Russian political police in 1896, and later reorganized as the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). |
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| | Christian Socialists |
| | Christian Socialists promoted the cooperative ideas of Robert Owen and suggested profit sharing as a way of improving the status of the working classes and as a means of producing a just, Christian society. | | | The meeting was a response to the decision by the House of Commons to reject the recent Chartist Petition. | | | Social revolt in Britain had sprung from dissent. |
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| | sp001622.txt |
| | The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man." Instead of "central planning," anarchists advocate free association and co-operation between individuals, workplaces and communities and so oppose "state" socialism as a form of state capitalism. | | | As mentioned in A.2, anarchists are dedicated to social equality because it is the only context in which individual liberty can flourish. | | | On the contrary, since authority is a threat to liberty, equality, and solidarity (not to mention human dignity), anarchists recognise the need to resist and overthrow it. |
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| | Christian Socialism: Part 2 |
| | The Episcopal Church did not split into northern and southern churches during the abolition controversy before the War Between the States, and this may be partly explained by the fear of schism. | | | The story continues into our own times with the peace movement during the Vietnamese War and the civil rights movement, The Supreme Court’s desegregation decision (Brown vs. The Board of Education) was handed down in 1954. | | | One of his chief concerns was the social gospel, and among his other endeavors in this arena was his work in organizing the National Mission of Repentance and Hope (1916), the COPEC Conference (Conference on Christian Political and Economic Citizenship, 1924) at Birmingham, and the Malvern Conference (1941). |
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| | CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: |
| | Socialism is not in desperate retreat, as falsely proclaimed by the establishment press, our state university professors and our "all is well" don't-rock-the-boat political machines. | | | Socialism is not in desperate retreat, as falsely proclaimed by the establishment press, our state university professors, and our "all is well" don't-rock-the-boat political machines - on the contrary it moves forward confidently, aggressively, and for the most part, uncontestedly, everywhere in the world….." | | | For socialism is still alive and well in Russia, throughout the old Soviet Empire, on all seven continents, on the isles of the sea, at the UN, in its regional arrangements, and as Kruschev predicted, in the United States. |
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| | Ntambirweki, SSA background paper: THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE AFRICAN STATE ON THE PATH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT |
| | As a consequence of the collapse of African socialism and the non-workability of the socio-economic experiments of the early post independence state, the economic face of the state had to be reshaped. | | | The preference for socialism was also a signal for the rejection of the colonial political theory and the economic and social theory on which it was based. | | | Almost all African states have formulated or are in the process of formulating national environment policies. |
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| | An Anarchist by Any Other Name: Albert Parsons and Anarchist Socialism |
| | Socialism is defined by Webster as “a theory of society which advocates a more precise, more orderly, and more harmonious arrangement of the social relations of mankind than has hitherto prevailed.” Therefore everything in the line of progress, in civilization in fact, is socialistic. | | | One is known as anarchism, without political government or authority; the other is known as state socialism or paternalism, or governmental control of everything. | | | We are charged with being the enemies of “Law and order,” as breeders of strife and confusion. |
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| | Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism |
| | Therefore he is not to be judged, as he has been even by many of his later followers, by his special practical proposals, which were born of the needs of the hour. | | | Proudhon opposed the influence of the Jacobin tradition, which dominated the thinking of the French democrats and most of the Socialists of that period, with the same determination as the interference of the central state and economic monopoly in the natural progress of social advance. | | | No social body is better fitted for this purpose than the economic fighting organisation of the workers; it gives a definite direction to their social activities and toughens their resistance in the immediate struggle for the necessities of life and the defence of their human rights. |
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| | Benjamin Tucker - State Socialism and Anarchism |
| | Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. | | | First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. | | | The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments. |
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