Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marx accepted The Machine. He accepted and further glorified the materialism of the capitalists, but rejected the idea of progress and said that The Machine would lead the workers where Ned Ludd said it would, unless the workers took control of The Machine away from the capitalists...
...idea of class struggle was certainly not original with Marx. What he did was rewrite history with class struggle in the center. Superficially, it might seem that the abundance of goods The Machine could produce would soften the class struggle; Marx said that this very possibility of abundance would sharpen class struggle, that the capitalists would use the state's police power, its war-making power and all other means to prevent glutted markets, i.e., abundance. It followed that the workers had to seize the state by revolution (they would never get it any other...
...conventional way of thinking about causes and effects imagines them as a chain, one link leading to the next. Hegel's dialectic presented a more turbulent picture: every idea (thesis) has its opposite (antithesis) with which it struggles until they produce a third idea (synthesis); this in turn has its antithesis, and so on. Marx expressed history by putting class conflicts in the place of thesis and antithesis. The culminating conflict was that called forth by The Machine. The last synthesis, which would be unique because it would not contain its own negation, would be the classless society...
Last week, Don Gavion was off for the antarctic on his most venturesome voyage yet. He got the idea when his antarctic expert and army chief, General Ramón Cañas Montalva, returned from the south. "The way to enforce our claims to the antarctic," he told the President, "is to take possession...
...idea sounded fine & dandy-like "two cars in every garage," or "a chicken in every pot." The President's Commission on Higher Education wanted U.S. colleges and universities to double their enrollments by 1960 (TIME, Dec. 29). But if 4,600,000 Americans were given a college education at the same time, how good an education would they...