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In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.
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In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.
Her outspoken defense of capitalism in works like Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ( 1967 ), and her characterization of her position as a defence of the ' virtue of selfishness ' in her essay collection of the same title published in 1964, also brought notoriety, but kept her out of the intellectual mainstream.
Under her leadership, Marine Le Pen has been more clear in her support for protectionism, while she has criticised globalism and capitalism for certain industries.
While she acknowledges tactical mistakes and misconceptions, Hansen maintains that her actions were justified, and that capitalism should be challenged through direct action and other forms of protest.
While playing The Game of Life, she discovers her love for money and capitalism ( as opposed to her belief in Communism during the early 20th century and her charitable attitude of her years as Aud ).
Žižek argues that the kind of distance opened up by detournement is the condition of possibility for ideology to operate: by attacking and distancing oneself from the sign-systems of capital, the subject creates a fantasy of transgression that " covers up " his / her actual complicity with capitalism as an overarching system.
Hence does capitalism remove from the worker the right to exercise control upon the value and the effects of his and her labour, which, in turn, robs the worker of the ability to either buy ( consume ) the goods and services, or to receive the full value from the sale of the product.
Even prior to her success with The Fountainhead, the novelist Ayn Rand was a friend of both Hazlitt and his wife, Frances, and it was Hazlitt who introduced Rand to Mises, bringing together the two figures who would become most associated with the defense of pure laissez-faire capitalism.
In explaining her position in regard to capitalism, she says she has a " marked personal preference for capitalism as the most productive, fair and sensible economic system on the face of the earth ," but also recognizes that the free market permits other kinds of systems as well.
SA reject reformism outright and defend Rosa Luxemburg's position in her work Social Reform or Revolution that reformism is " not the realisation of socialism, but the reform of capitalism ".
Gayle Rubin, who has written on a certain range of subjects including sadomasochism, prostitution, pornography, and lesbian literature as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, first rose to prominence through her 1975 essay " The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ' Political Economy ' of Sex ", in which she coins the phrase " sex / gender system " and criticizes Marxism for what she claims is its incomplete analysis of sexism under capitalism, without dismissing or dismantling Marxist fundamentals in the process.
Whilst through the character of Jan Howard and her attempts to go it alone as a businesswoman through establishing her own fashion label, the series explored a standard 1980s melodramatic motif of female emancipation via capitalism cf.
Showalter was reportedly severely criticized by her academic colleagues for her stance in favour of patriarchal symbols of consumer capitalism and traditional femininity.
her and peace
Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.
They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come, for Virginia had defended her land victoriously.
She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.
Julia felt at peace and drew her legs up and clasped her hands tightly around the bent knees.
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.
Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.
Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.
The Battle of Mantinea, in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.
The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.
Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.
He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.
When Högni comes to fight Heðinn on an island, Hildr comes to offer her father a necklace on behalf of Heðinn for peace ; but the two kings still battle, and Hildr resurrects the fallen to make them fight until Ragnarök.
* A prophecy of restoration ( 7: 11 – 13 ): Fallen Jerusalem is promised that she will be rebuilt and that her power will be greater than ever ( a contrast with the vision of peace in 4: 1-5 ).
Victoria found the house " small but pretty ", and recorded in her diary that: " All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils ".
After my return from the hospital, Boria came to visit me, as though nothing had happened, a dn touchingly made his peace with my mother, telling her how much he loved me.
These letters were intended to reach men and women of her circle, increasingly widening her audience to include figures in authority as she begged for peace between the republics and principalities of Italy and for the return of the Papacy from Avignon to Rome.
In response to this, Bernard became more kindly towards her: " My child, seek those things which make for peace.
This public humiliation of her " Lieutenant-General " combined with her continued talks for a separate peace with Spain, irreversibly undermined his standing among the Dutch.
her and theory
He would offer no theory to account for her murder.
Moreover, some of Dutton's categories seem too broad: a physicist might entertain hypothetical worlds in his / her imagination in the course of formulating a theory.
Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.
Jacobs does not lend her theory to any reasonably strict definition of a city, but her account suggestively or vaguely contrasts what could be thought of as primitive city-like activity to the activity occurring in neighboring hunter-gatherer settlements.
Darwin's daughter Henrietta ( Etty ) wrote to her father: " Is it fair that Lyell always calls your theory a modification of Lamarck's?
F. H. Pairault in her essay on Diana qualifies Dumézil's theory as " impossible to verify ".
A much different theory is briefly discussed by Fabricius and elaborated more by Helga Bruhn in her book " Dannebrog " from 1949.
He later made plans with German film director Werner Herzog, whom Tom Luddy had introduced to Morris, to return in the summer of 1975 to secretly open the grave of Gein's mother to test their theory that Gein himself had already dug her up.
The concept of self-efficacy, which played an important role in later developments of the theory, refers to the learner's belief in his or her ability to perform the modeled behavior.
Whilst Laura Mulvey's paper has a particular place in the feminist film theory, it is also important to note that her ideas regarding ways of watching the cinema ( from the voyeuristic element to the feelings of identification ) have been very important in terms of defining spectatorship from the psychoanalytical view point.
The monarch may, in theory, decline the Prime Minister's advice and ask for another nomination or even appoint a person of his or her own choice, but no such cases have been recorded since November 1930, when James Scullin's proposed appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs was fiercely opposed by the British government.
The spiritualist writer Walburga, Lady Paget in her book Colloquies with an unseen friend ( 1907 ) was an early writer to mention the hollow earth theory, she claimed that cities exist beneath a desert, which is where the descendants of Atlantis moved to, she further claimed that an entrance will be discovered to this subterranean kingdom in the 21st century.
In her theory the male psyche's ' Horned God ' frequently compensates for inadequate fathering.
Following the writings of suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and others, Margaret Murray, in her 1921 book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, proposed the theory that the witches of the early-modern period were remnants of a pagan cult and that the Christian Church had declared the god of the witches was in fact the Devil.
In 1931 Murray published a sequel, The God of the Witches, which tries to gather evidence in support of her witch-cult theory.
Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.
:: Finding she has no chance of evading eventual death, she immediately loses her obsession with safety, becomes interested in biochemistry again, and invents a new theory.
Thus in theory, if law enforcement officials decline to offer a Miranda warning to an individual in their custody, they may still interrogate that person and act upon the knowledge gained, but may not use that person's statements to incriminate him or her in a criminal trial.
They divorced, as in the second theory, but Yoshiko took Musashi, who was 7 at the time, with her, and married Tasumi Masahisa.
Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.
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