Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian-U.S. defense is being geared to a new peacetime concept: a coordinated arms program. For a start, Canada has plans to manufacture U.S.-type planes for both the R.C.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force. If that works out, the idea can be extended to guns (which both would make), tanks (U.S.-made), patrol craft and antisub boats (Canada-made...
...theory starts with this : what happens to social systems is not the result of men's ideas (which would be "idealism"), but the result of "material" environment. That is, social systems change primarily because of "objective" influences and not "subjective" influences (whereby people get the idea of making the change...
Such a crisis, according to the old Marxists, would bring on an internal revolutionary situation in each of the countries independently, depending on how advanced was the stage of capitalism. It was Lenin who broke away from Marx's idea of the revolutionary process operating all by itself in each country. Lenin deduced, contrary to Marx, that the series of Communist revolutions might start in a backward country, rather than in an advanced country. Lenin, justifying the un-Marxian revolution in slowpoke Russia, called this a "break" in the world front...
Here Historicus leaves the subject of automatic or "objective" forces that produce revolution, and turns to the other factor: "subjective" force. A revolution brought about mainly by subjective forces would be one in which people themselves simply had the idea for a revolution, and went ahead with it. (Most Latin American revolutions are 90% subjective...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...