“The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.” SaidPoliticalEconomyModernCrisisWestFinancialIdeologyFrightenedPollutionThey SaidEconomistPrevailingFinancial CrisisPolitical Economy Author:James Buchan
“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.” IfsNeedsGovernmentJobsFacesChallengesEconomyToughDifficultyIdeologyFree MarketSmall GovernmentTough Questions Author:Lucy Powell
“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.” PoliticalPracticeEconomyExpressionTheoryEssentialsClaimsStructureHistoricalIdeologyMaterialismConcretePrimitiveTestimonyFluctuation Author:Antonio Gramsci
“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!” HeartUseSocialStepsClassEconomyMiddleCenturyIdeologyMarxismCritiqueBourgeoisMarxistLatent Author:Jean Baudrillard
“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.” ShouldLittlesRealPoliticalPoliticsCausesPovertyPracticeEconomyDemocracyEconomicPromiseCapitalismUltimateDemocraticClimateTerrorismDoctrineOppressionIdeologyLiberalismConservatismBankruptcyPluralismOxymoronPlutocracy Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.” PeopleWorldNeedsTwoPoliticalValuesPoliticsSidesJusticeEconomyDemocracyFailingEconomicHigherEssentialsConcernClaimsRelationBlindInjusticeTerrorismContraryMonstersDespiteIdeologyPreservesExpertsLiberalismStatus QuoCoinsMonopolyConservatismFrameworkParadigmTwo SidesPublic RelationsTwo Heads Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.” PeopleWayI CanTwoWisdomTodayPainPoliticalDiesPoliticsEnergyNationsLeaderEconomyGoneMonthsSixOrganizationEducationalBillionsIdeologyLiberalismSix MonthsMachineryStarvationDeprivationPolitical LeadersBombshells Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.” WorldWellsChildrenStillsRealUseAblePoliticalUsedPoliticsIndividualNationsInterestCommunityNaturalDarknessEconomyEconomicPeriodsCapitalismHarmonyStructureIdeologyCorporateLiberalismGuaranteesAdamCreedsDogmaLaissez FaireEconomic FreedomUniversalismLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.” PeopleCountryPoliticalEconomyArmyStructureExcellenceIdeologyGermanySovietSocialistFascistsMarxistSocialist Economy Author:Ivan Bagramyan
“Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.” CountryRealityPoliticsEnergyNationsMoneyEconomyPolicyCorruptionOilRussiaIdeologyDependentGasStationsForeign PolicyGas StationsOil And Gas Author:John McCain
“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?” ShouldSaidRealityWould BeTodayJobsPoliticalPoliticsCommunityHoursWorkMoneyPartyPovertyHistoryCasesEconomyPolicyCostCapitalismEconomicsDemocratIdeologyReportsMinimumPolitical PartiesMinimum WagePartisanshipForeseen Author:S. E. Cupp
“The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.” GovernmentForceEconomyLosingDrawsIdeologyChineseIdeologicalLegitimacyMaoChinese Government Author:Steve Forbes
“What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.” ThinkingWorldWould BeAmericaHateJusticeSecretRolesEconomyBe GoodIdeologyPerceiveCandidatesTraitor Author:Dinesh D'Souza