Word: capitalisme
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MANY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS theorize that science and technology are sweeping all before it, shoving aside tradition, magic, superstition and old values that cannot be justified in terms of collective utility. This ultimate rationalization of human behavior provides the basis for modern industry and brings about un--precedented economic progress with...
Herein lies the paradox. The economic prosperity that those defending the bourgeois consensus used as testimony to vindicate capitalistic elements in French society, in turn, gave rise to a clearer delineation between those who owned the means of production and those who did not. The peasantry and the displaced aristocracy...
No one took to the computer more eagerly or saw its usefulness more quickly than the businessman. Now, 24 years after General Electric became the first company to acquire a computer, these versatile machines have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be...
Members of the American Communist Party, who never numbered more then one million, must have felt jilted by history. The beloved proletariat, so requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman. As the cold war closed in, Communists were once again looked...
Because his problems have been redefined as illnesses, argues Lasch, the man on the street has been freed from responsibility for running his own life and raising his children. Yet the modern social scientific approach has also increased man's sense of responsibility, for it suggests he can solve his...