Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue, Fetter said, should appeal especially to lower middle-class whites, who believe that "welfare chiselers" are stealing their badly-missed tax money...
...need more money for the war on poverty." Fetter said. "and we can't get it from people who haven't any. Only the very rich profit from the present tax system. Blacks and whites can unite behind this issue...
...reaffirm the difference between people and property. One of the deepest philosophical bases of capitalism is the belief that a person is his property. Since you are what you can buy, your purchases are an extension of yourself. Indeed, as Marx writes in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, "If money is the bond which binds me to human life, and society to me, and which links me with nature and man, is it not the bond of all bonds? Is it not therefore also the universal agent of separation?" (Bottomore edition...
...Money and property become the mediating forces between life and everything else, including people. By the deification of property, capitalism can continue to make people think that their property is part of themselves. To separate people from an identity with their possessions, it will be necessary to show people the transience of those possessions...
...added that, since the Center's major grant from the Ford Foundation will expire in two years, "we have been under strict instructions from the University administration to try to reduce our dependence on that Ford grant." The federal government looms at the only major source of new research money...