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| | Egalitarianism |
 | | At least if an ideal of equality is being constructed to serve in a public conception of justice that establishes basic terms of morality for a modern democratic society, this ideal must eschew controversial claims about human good and human flourishing such as those in which the capability approach must become embroiled. | | | Interpreting Karl Marx as an egalitarian normative theorist is a tricky undertaking, however, in view of the fact that he tends to eschew explicit theorizing on moral principles and to regard assertions of moral principles as so much ideological dust thrust in the eyes of the workers by defenders of capitalism. | | | In modern democratic societies, the term "egalitarian" is often used to refer to a position that favors, for any of a wide array of reasons, a greater degree of equality of income and wealth across persons than currently exists. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism
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| | Europe and the Post-Modern Left |
| | Democratic Capitalism is unique in having both serious flaws and powerful mechanisms for addressing these flaws and co-opting the legitimate grievances of its critics. | | | Rousseau criticized Democratic Capitalism for its lack of passion in the defense of the common good and its inability to reflect the greater aspirations of the soul. | | | This being the case, the first chink in the armor of the liberal democratic tradition is the observation that any model that depends on the willingly assumed burden of faith is not unconditional. |
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http://www.wildmonk.net
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| | THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS |
| | Many believed that national governments, local government, the democratic system, the law, the United Nations...could protect them from the cataclysm that unrestrained capitalism would launch. | | | the recent UK decision to allow terrorist 'suspects' to be imprisoned indefinitely without charge, trial, legal representation, open evidence...and accepting 'evidence' obtained under torture as legitimate) Meanwhile they having milked the "democratic system" for what they can get out of it, they have poisoned it for anyone else. | | | Never have they allowed the democratic system to come anywhere near them as far as the way they operate (except in very minor particulars): what they produce or don't produce, where, for how much, who they employ, for how much, who they sack... |
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| | Democracy and Capitalism - Isn't capitalism opposed to democratic ideals? |
| | Democracy and Capitalism - Isn't capitalism opposed to democratic ideals? | | | What is the relation of Capitalism to democratic principles? | | | It is a system of checks and balances so ordered to protect the rights of the individual, from criminals and most importantly from the democratically elected voices who claim to speak for the " |
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http://www.capitalism.org/faq/democracy.htm
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| | Bush's Crony Capitalism |
| | Fortunately, signs are already appearing that not only are Democratic voters up in arms about Bush's obliteration of our way of life, but even some Republicans have had enough of Bush's cronyism and insane spending. | | | The foreign and domestic crises they're concocting could provide them the excuse they want to take this country down in terms of finances and civil liberties. | | | Lied to us to get us into a war for oil and crony contracts (e.g., Halliburton) |
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| | Whereas, in the other case, if we may cite Russia for example, faced with a national-democratic revolution from c1905; by taking the lead in the bourgeois democratic revolutionary situation, the proletariat held a commanding position upon the successful overthrow of the feudal state. | | | The Peoples' Republic of China was actually established from a 'Peoples Democratic Dictatorship' led by the working class and its party in alliance with the peasantry as a step toward socialism in the manner of the great October revolution. | | | Another popular proposition being sustained is, that it is ideas of a class of people, and a decadent one at that (modern revisionists) and generated under the dictatorship of the proletariat, who are responsible for this change backwards in the forces and mode of production from socialism to capitalism. |
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| | Transcript - Interview with Maj. F. Andrew Messing |
| | MESSING: Well, our measure of democratic capitalism is not necessarily the same measure in Central and South America. | | | And the next reason, and a reason the United States ought to be concerned, is because we don't want a narco-sovereignty, or a place where darkside criminal capitalism can manifest itself in our hemisphere. | | | Lightside capitalism is what was espoused by Locke, Adams, Jefferson, and others from our forefathers, who believed that capitalism should have a benevolent and uplifting and ethical component to it. |
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| | WWW-VL History Index |
| | History of Capitalism in the Congo, by Zarachary Carabell 1998 | | | Democratic Republic of the Congo, by Contemporary Conflicts | | | Countries of the World: Democratic Republic of Congo |
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http://vlib.iue.it/history/africa/congo.html
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| | AcademicDB - Does democracy bring peace? |
| | Commercial pacifists argue that what has transformed democracy from that time to its present day state was the development of capitalism. | | | Finally "democratic peace" theorists argue that regardless of the several critiques raised of the "democratic peace" theory, it does not mean that a genuine link between democracy and peace can't be made. | | | However "democratic peace" theorists argue that on average democracies have much less violence than other forms of government, regarding examples of democracies with "high" levels of internal violence, one can easily point to cases of much more deadly violence within non-democracies. |
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http://www.academicdb.com/does_democracy_bring_peace_8590
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| | Everybodys Up in Arms, Process Reminiscent of Nazi Horrors --01/06/2004-- Media Research Center |
| | Matthews Panel Sees Crony Capitalism as Good Anti-Bush Issue | | | Chris Matthews: How does a Democrat use the issue of crony capitalism which has been a weakness of the Republican party since, my dads a Republican, all his life he said the one weakness of the Republican party is its too close to big corporations. | | | I think crony capitalism is gonna be a big issue. |
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| | PRODOS.COM internet radio - Ayn Rand, Science, Lateral Thinking, Rights, Capitalism, Art, Humour |
| | How the division of labor - a key feature of capitalism - opens up more choices for everyone - the opportunity to do what you love most and are best at. | | | How The Plan supersedes individual rights, in Justice Stevenss verdict. | | | Using the example of the Brazilian Government's threat to seize the patent to AIDS drug, Viracept, we look at how Governments get away with such breaches of property rights. |
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| | Worcester |
| | Britain was negotiating a middle path between capitalism and socialism, one that would harness market forces to the dictates of a redistributive social democratic egalitarianism. | | | After Crosland, the Labour Party was no longer a reformist party with socialist aspirations, but a social democratic party with radical aspirations. | | | Crosland's interest in a more 'modern' Britain is defended in its own right and is not merely a rhetorical extension of his social democratic commitments, although much of the book represents an attempt to connect the two themes in a manner that could appeal to a broad swathe of public opinion. |
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| | End of History? -- Francis Fukuyama's Thesis Won't Fly |
| | Fukuyama's optimism about democratic capitalism is tempered only by his Nietzschean worries about the blandness of life in this order. | | | Of course, so long as lesser powers remain nondemocratic, democratic countries will be involved in wars with them. | | | Yet conservative and neoliberal elites in capitalist democratic establishments seek and need such legitimacy to carry on everyday geopolitical and geo- economic tasks. |
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| | business.iafrica.com company news Thintana deal is crony capitalism - DA |
| | The Democratic Alliance MP said the transfer of equity "to a well-connected few at the expense of ordinary South Africans has become the empowerment pattern under this government's BEE (black economic empowerment) policies. | | | The sale of Thintana's remaining 15.1 percent in Telkom to an elite government-aligned consortium is an example of an opportunity lost for broad-based empowerment and an unusually unfortunate example of crony capitalism, says shadow communications minister Dene Smuts. | | | Here crony capitalism has been taken to new levels. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Crony capitalism, Clinton-style |
| | Yes, Lay is an equal opportunity crony, who tried to trade on favors with both Republican and Democratic administrations. | | | Lay got more fruit under Clinton and it turned rotten, as most deals borne of crony capitalism do. | | | But in terms of the fruits of the cronyism, it's apples and oranges. |
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| | The Democratic Empire of T. I. I. |
| | The Democratic Empire of The Irish Isle is a peaceful nation that, however, packs a punch. | | | coname=The Democratic Empire of T. The Democratic Empire of T. The Irish Isle ] | | | Full Name: The Democratic Empire of The Irish Isle |
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| | DPRK Forever |
| | This site is about Communism, in particular the Communism of the D.P.R.K. That is the democratic peoples' republic of Korea. | | | It states that everyone should have an equal share of the world's wealth, that the economy should not be run by individuals, as it is in capitalism, rather, that it should be run by all the people, acting as equals. | | | Juche is the Communism of the D.P.R.K. It was founded by Kim Il Sung, first leader of the D.P.R.K. It states that a Communist state should be self-reliant to protect itself from imperialism. |
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| | Muslimedia.com |
| | What is being created is a new international division of labour, new institutions to bypass democratic and other defensive forces, new means of exploiting opportunities provided by new technologies capable of reducing the costs of transport and communication in order to increase the profitability of capital at the expense of the worlds poorest people. | | | Other political changes were also significant: the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the massive boost that gave the capitalist West, for example. | | | This is not a new process: the book traces it back to the telegraph and the steam-engine in the nineteenth century, but the speed of technological progress has increased enormously, and the impact of e-mail and jet aeroplanes, cheap fuel and advances in sea traffic of commodities have "shrunk the world". |
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| | Democratic capitalism works best because it builds on the natural attributes of humans, which are the urge to freedom, the instinct for social cooperation, mutual respect, and the hope for a better life. | | | Democratic capitalism has the economic logic to neutralize the predatory forces, and the protocols of democratic capitalism are available to train leaders to avoid mistakes. | | | Democratic capitalism is described as integral and coherent because it has all of the necessary parts in a rational relationship. |
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| | Democratic capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Democratic Capitalism is distinguished from other ideologies that support a regulated market economy (most notably social democracy) through the fact that it generally advocates far fewer regulations (and therefore more capitalism) than those other ideologies. | | | Democratic Capitalism is a right-of-center ideology that supports a mainly capitalist market economy, with some limitations (i.e. | | | The United States is notable in using Democratic Capitalism as its economic-political system. |
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| | Kenneth L. Grasso |
| | A democratic capitalism animated by the Catholic understanding of man and society would insist that the mechanisms and processes of the free market be placed in a legal and cultural framework designed to direct their operations to moral and social ends which transcend the impersonal machinations of the market. | | | The answer is to be found in the fact that democratic capitalism itself does not possess an unequivocal meaning: there are a number of different models of democratic capitalism, which although similar in their broad outlines and institutional frameworks differ dramatically in both spirit and substance. | | | There is no reason why democratic capitalism should be exempt from the operation of this law: while capable of being a powerful instrument of human liberation, it can also be the source of new forms of servitude. |
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| | 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. | | | While the freedoms of democratic capitalism are gains of popular struggle to be cherished, democratic socialists argue that the values of liberal democracy can only be fulfilled when the economy as well as the state is democratically controlled. | | | Leninists argued that there was no possibility of a "democratic" road to socialism because the state inevitably served as an instrument of capitalist domination. |
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| | Democratic Socialism |
| | While the freedoms of democratic capitalism are gains of popular struggle to be cherished, democratic socialists argue that the values of liberal democracy can only be fulfilled when the economy as well as the state is democratically controlled. | | | To preserve the legitimacy of democratic government (and, in the long run, democratic capitalism itself), the state must respond to popular mobilization. | | | Leninists argued that there was no possibility of a "democratic" road to socialism because the state inevitably served as an instrument of capitalist domination. |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 41, No. 1 - April 1984 - ARTICLE - Benne and Novak on Capitalism |
| | Democratic capitalism can be legitimated as a relatively just form of society now, with the prospect of significant improvement in the future (18). | | | He is not unaware of the problems that face him in his attempt to not only make democratic capitalism compatible with Christianity, but also to have their respective "virtues" interpenetrate (357). | | | Apparently not, for Novak; hence, he can make the extraordinary claims he does for democratic capitalism. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Boredom, Virtue, and Democratic Capitalism |
| | ...With the invention of democratic capitalism in America, new demands were made upon the citizens, for which new virtues were required... | | | ...By contrast, the institutions of democratic capitalism do not cause those who live under them to merge their own identities in a common sea... | | | ...Indeed, many of the insights and many of the practical institutional experiments that were indispensable to the eventual development of democratic capitalist societies were first championed by the pagan cultures of Greece and Rome and, later, by some who had set their faces against Judaism and Christianity... |
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| | CAPITALISM - A New Model Known As Democratic Capitalism |
| | Is a New Model of Democratic Capitalism Open for Discussion? | | | CAPITALISM - A New Model Known As Democratic Capitalism | | | The new model will still be capitalism, but it will be a model of capitalism antithetical to the existing model and vastly superior in the mutual benefits that it will deliver to all the human beings that work within it. |
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| | Democratic Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This may be the reason why Democratic Republics tend to be either ex-colonies (Congo, Sri Lanka, Algeria, etc.) who achieved independence after breaking away from an imperialist power, or communist states that were created after the overthrow of a capitalist regime (since communists regard capitalism as inherently undemocratic). | | | The reasons why countries call themselves Democratic Republics are also very different from case to case, but the common denominator seems to be that all these countries were created as a result of a revolution or war of independence against a domestic or foreign regime that was widely seen as tyrannical, oppressive and undemocratic. | | | In particular, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) gave themselves the title of "Democratic Republics" as a way of implying that their rivals - West Germany, South Vietnam Bogantopia and South Korea - were not democratic. |
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| | Social Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | democratic socialists carry on the legacy of reformist socialism and seek to bring about a fully socialist system through electoral means, while most of the social democrats only wish to make capitalism more equitable (and see the abolition of capitalism as unnecessary). | | | In general, those social democrats who merely want to improve capitalism have kept the name social democrats (by virtue of their majority position), while those who want to gradually abolish capitalism through democratic means are called democratic socialists. | | | Democratic socialists and revolutionary socialists criticise social democrats for being so dependent on the capitalist system that they become indistinguishable from modern liberals. |
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| | In education, the ideal of social progress through democratic capitalism should be offered to students of the liberal arts, business, and law. | | | The Carey Center educates students, citizens and our leaders about democratic capitalism, the most efficient commercial system, premised on the template of democratic governance. | | | This failure will continue unless the political process is rededicated to the general welfare, by changing U.S. fiscal and monetary policies to encourage the spread of democratic capitalism. |
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| | Democratic Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This may be the reason why Democratic Republics tend to be either ex-colonies (Congo, Sri Lanka, Algeria, etc.) who achieved independence after breaking away from an imperialist power, or communist states that were created after the overthrow of a capitalist regime (since communists regard capitalism as inherently undemocratic). | | | The reasons why countries call themselves Democratic Republics are also very different from case to case, but the common denominator seems to be that all these countries were created as a result of a revolution or war of independence against a domestic or foreign regime that was widely seen as tyrannical, oppressive and undemocratic. | | | In particular, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) gave themselves the title of "Democratic Republics" as a way of implying that their rivals - West Germany and South Korea - were not democratic. |
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