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...primary forces behind secularization in the United States has been the push by the consciousness industry to create receptivity for artificial appetites in consumers. To establish new social space for the imposition of consumer needs, capital has advanced the delegitimition of the emphasis on God that is central to precapitalist social systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let the Debate Begin | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

...close the precapitalist world was to the Middle Ages in most material conditions of life. Some statistics: world production of pig iron soared from 10 million tons in 1867 to 357 million tons a century later. As late as 1850, human muscle and animal power accounted for 94% of the energy used in U.S. industry; today they supply less than 1%. Populations burgeoned as capitalism produced the food and goods to keep unprecedented numbers of people alive. North America's population exploded from 5.7 million in 1800 to 81 million by 1900 and 339 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Capitalism Survive? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...uproar over procedures, the election amounted to an important vote of confidence for precapitalist, pro-Western Premier Hayato Ikeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Vote of Confidence for Ikeda | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

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