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“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”

Today Political Economic Objectives Ideological

Author:Omar Bongo

“The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.”

May Made Used Values Social Emotion Struggle Economic Theory Ought Objectives Useless Judged Effectiveness Refutation Social Theory

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).”

Law Order Lord Economic Masters Projects Transformation Slave Objectives Etc Technological Dependence Domination Donors Serfs

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.”

“The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.”

War Economic Policy Objectives Civil War Foreign Policy Precise Strategic Massacres Rwanda Us Foreign Policy

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.”

Mind Ends Country Struggle Economic Revolution Development Bases Forgotten Objectives Our Country Ideology Revolutionary Sole Strategic Economic Development

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”

Source: Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)

“I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.”

Should Littles Economic Policy Activity Property Satisfaction Productions Arguing Objectives Consumption Economic Policy Subtraction

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.”

“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.”

Government Jobs Process Economic Politician Activity Projects Investing Objectives Consumers Productive Private Sector Bureaucrats

Author:Sheldon Richman

“It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.”

Economic Policy Objectives Corporations Foreign Policy Coincidence Multinationals American Foreign Policy Multinational Corporations

Author:Charley Reese

“Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.”

Government Political Process Economic Objectives Consumers Interference Substitution

Author:Sheldon Richman

“We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird”

Firsts Art Bigs Term Cutting Economic Essentials Bird Crisis Objectives Budgets Funding Economic Crisis Short Sighted Budget Cuts Big Bird

Author:Julia Stiles