It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

Incumbent William Brod is opposed in his re-election bid by Barbara Njust, Miles C. Bubenik and Frank Lee.

In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

" It is often said that Korzybski opposed the use of the verb " to be ," which is an exaggeration ( see " Criticisms " below ).

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

It is thus much better equipped for fulfilling its civil roles as opposed to providing a deterrence against would-be aggressors or in defending the nation during a war.

Anisotropy () is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which implies identical properties in all directions.

There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently composed almost entirely of matter ( as opposed to a mixture of matter and antimatter ), whether there exist other places that are almost entirely composed of antimatter instead, and what sorts of technology might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

He argues that Kant's " aesthetic " merely represents an experience that is the product of an elevated class habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible and equally valid " aesthetic " experiences which lay outside Kant's narrow definition.

Most luthiers and experienced players agree that a good solid top ( as opposed to laminated or plywood ) is the most important factor in the tone of the guitar.

It is an outer locative case, used just as the adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and " being around the place " ( as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means " from out of " or " from the inside of ").

Since “ a cappella ” singing brought a new polyphony with instrumental accompaniment, it is not surprising that Protestant reformers who opposed the instruments ( such as Calvin and Zwingli ) also opposed the polyphony.

Whether this whole process resembles animal apoptosis closely enough to warrant using the name apoptosis ( as opposed to the more general programmed cell death ) is unclear.

Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, Austrian Freedom Party, or the Italian Lego Nord are opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is the protection of the nation-state, sometimes, according to critics, in explicitly racist or fascist terms.

As opposed to that, the inquisitorial system has a judge ( or a group of judges who work together ) whose task is to investigate the case.

Drag on a flat plate is closer to being linear with the angle of inclination as opposed to acting quadratically at low angles.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Leontyev had seen human action as a result of biological as well as cultural evolution and, drawing on Marx's materialist conception of culture, stressed that individual cognition always is part of social action which in turn is mediated by man-made tools ( cultural artifacts ), language and other man-made systems of symbols, which he viewed as a major distinguishing feature of human culture and, thus, human cognition.

While Gramsci's views argue that culture ( beliefs, perceptions and values ) allows the ruling class to maintain domination, Marx's explanation is along more economic lines, with concepts such as commodity fetishism demonstrating how the ideology of the bourgeoisie ( in this case, the existence of property as a social creation rather than an ' eternal entity ') dominate over that of the working classes.

Marx's doctoral thesis concerned the atomism of Epicurus and Democritus, which ( along with stoicism ) is considered the foundation of materialist philosophy.

The ultimate sense of Marx's materialist philosophy is that philosophy itself must take a position in the class struggle based on objective analysis of physical and social relations.

Labor, not labor power, is the key factor of production for Marx and the basis for Marx's labor theory of value.

She was interred in Highgate Cemetery ( East ), Highgate, London in the area reserved for religious dissenters or agnostics, next to George Henry Lewes ; Karl Marx's memorial is nearby.

Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:

Karl Marx's doctrine of " historical inevitabilities " and historical materialism is one of the more influential reactions to this side of Hegel's thought.

Marx's birthplace in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, which is now a museum devoted to him.

Little is known about Karl Marx's childhood.

It thus introduced the first glimpse at Marx's historical materialism, an argument that the world is changed not by ideas but by actual, physical, material activity and practice.

In collaboration with Engels he also set about writing a book which is often seen as his best treatment of the concept of historical materialism, The German Ideology ; the work, like many others, would not see publication in Marx's lifetime, being published only in 1932.

This work is also notable for another famous Marx's quote: " From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Marx's tombstone bears the carved message: " WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE ", the final line of The Communist Manifesto, and from the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach ( edited by Engels ): " The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways — the point however is to change it ".

Fundamental to Marx's idea of meaningful labour is the proposition that, in order for a subject to come to terms with its alienated object, it must first exert influence upon literal, material objects in the subject's world.

An example of this sort of analysis is Marx's understanding of religion, summed up in a passage from the preface to his 1843 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right:

Despite Marx's stress on critique of capitalism and discussion of the new communist society that should replace it, his explicit critique of capitalism is guarded, as he saw it as an improved society compared to the past ones ( slavery and feudal ).

Marx's dual view of capitalism can be seen in his description of the capitalists: he refers to them as to vampires sucking worker's blood, but at the same time, he notes that drawing profit is " by no means an injustice " and that capitalists simply cannot go against the system.

This abuse of Marx's thought is perhaps most clearly exemplified in Stalinist Marxism, described by critics as the " most widespread and successful form of mass indoctrination ... a masterly achievement in transforming Marxism into the official ideology of a consistently totalitarian state.

Some distinguish Marx's economic theories from his political philosophy, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the economy is independent of his advocacy of revolutionary socialism or his belief in the inevitability of proletarian revolution.

This theory is often viewed as a reversal of Marx's thesis that the economic " base " of society determines all other aspects of it.