Word: egalitarians
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...Tour shared the cynical nationalism and lust for learning of his friends Voltaire and Rousseau. He refused the Order of St. Michael because of his egalitarian principles. He delved into science, mathematics, politics, theology, philosophy and poetry, and took up the study of Latin at 55. When he retired to the country, senile at 80, he endowed homes for indigent mothers and passionately adopted a pantheism that sent him roaming the countryside, embracing and talking to the trees. He died in 1788, the year before the society he chronicled...
...would urge also that we need a somewhat stronger line on that most glittering of modern economic doctrines which is that all progress must be bought by increasing profits and allowing a larger return to the needy rich. In the last six years under the presumably stern egalitarian policies of two Democratic Presidents, corporate profits after taxes increased from $27 billion to $48 billion. Nothing comparable to this ever occurred before. It is even bad for the Republicans; what in the world will they have to offer if they ever return to the Treasury? Let me now say a word...
...even a radical American Negro group like the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) had to work through society. For Epps argues that there is an "intricate network of connections which bind Negro culture and history to the larger society and visa versa." The AME had to draw upon Christian egalitarian ideas of the larger society to justify their positions. In parallel fashion, developing countries would face many problems breaking connections with industrialized powers because of traditional economic and cultural ties...
...egalitarian vision and brutal controls, Communism is still basically an economic philosophy. Because of that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...
...even the Stalinist states of East Germany and Czechoslovakia to thinking about reform. Out of earshot of the West, economists began discussing things that the West would understand: bonuses and reinvestment, free prices and the need for incentives, even the accumulation of wealth-once a heretical thought under "egalitarian" Communism. Quite independently of one another, the prophets of profit began coming to the same conclusion: rigid Stalinist-style central planning must cease...