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Perhaps the most influential thinker in all of history, Plato lived in ancient Athens about 2500 years ago. His ideas about life, government, and truth have survived to this day. Answer and Explanation: Plato rejected democracy because the democratic process had led to the death of his teacher...
Let us remember that Karl Marx was born into a Jewish family, and that Lenin himself had a Jewish maternal grandfather, that Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik founder and head of the Red Army, was born a Bronstein, while Kamenev (real name: Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (real name: Apfelbaum) were...
Notably, radical agrarian justice organisations such as the food sovereignty movement has been influential in proposing alternatives through campaigns for agrarian reforms that support peasants agriculture instead of large scale investments- a popular declaration of La via Campesina has been “Our Land is...
The future, which should be the core focus of ideology, is — as it was under Marx — relegated to window dressing. What truly matters is one thing: The near-term cultural war. This shows yet again how complex things can get, and why people keep buying reassuring (if idiotic) ...
together with Crutzen and environmental historian John McNeill and others, coined the termGreat Accelerationfor the dramatic social-environmental changes after 1950. The name was a deliberate homage toThe Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi’s influential book on the social, economic, and political uph...
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Haveyou ever asked what isthe root of all money? —Ayn Rand 127 If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from wh...
(2022) 1:10 of Karl Marx, Ernst Kapp, Hannah Arendt, and made explicit, among others, by the historian of technology Melvin Kranzberg who claims—within his influential, so- called Kranzberg laws—that "[t]echnology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral" (Kranzberg, 1986, p. ...
(investment, implementation, evaluation), and have internet access. Leaders not influential in QI implementation, evaluation and investment were to be excluded. Our target sample was 15, which we deemed both feasible and sufficient to gain insights on the QI-ROI concept at high leadership level. ...
Thomas Newcomen was an ironmonger born in 1664. He was born and bred in Dartmouth, Devon, England and spent most of his life in the south portion of that nation. His most influential and famous invention was the first practical steam engine. ...