American Democracy Versus Prussian Marxism: A Study in the Nature and Results of Purposive Or Beneficial Government |
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... THEORIES • 322 XXVII . THE INHERENT Weaknesses of MARX'S POLITICAL • XXVIII . ( WE MUST MAKE AN IRREVOCABLE CHOICE BETWEEN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND PRUS- SIAN SOCIALISM AND PROLETARIATOCRACY · 335 XXIX . ( OUR DUTY . INDEX 348 352 I OUR ...
... THEORIES • 322 XXVII . THE INHERENT Weaknesses of MARX'S POLITICAL • XXVIII . ( WE MUST MAKE AN IRREVOCABLE CHOICE BETWEEN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND PRUS- SIAN SOCIALISM AND PROLETARIATOCRACY · 335 XXIX . ( OUR DUTY . INDEX 348 352 I OUR ...
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... theories and fantasies and the turmoil and internal strife into which the country was plunged , and how they doubted whether the whole ex- periment was not to end in failure . History remembers , though we may have forgotten , that ...
... theories and fantasies and the turmoil and internal strife into which the country was plunged , and how they doubted whether the whole ex- periment was not to end in failure . History remembers , though we may have forgotten , that ...
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... theories , and some- times brought on or culminated in financial panics . Yet in all cases they were the endeavor of the people to get its full worth out of their political freedom which had been won after so many centuries of the ...
... theories , and some- times brought on or culminated in financial panics . Yet in all cases they were the endeavor of the people to get its full worth out of their political freedom which had been won after so many centuries of the ...
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... theories have even less straightfor- wardness and altruism than the other members of the Prussian trinity - Prussian militarism and Prussian com- mercial methods . Like these , their basic characteristics , when opposed , are hatred ...
... theories have even less straightfor- wardness and altruism than the other members of the Prussian trinity - Prussian militarism and Prussian com- mercial methods . Like these , their basic characteristics , when opposed , are hatred ...
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... theory , and they differ only as to the degree and amount to be used . Because of these things , and especially because of its Prussian theories and methods of thought and action , Marxism as a working hypothesis can never furnish a ...
... theory , and they differ only as to the degree and amount to be used . Because of these things , and especially because of its Prussian theories and methods of thought and action , Marxism as a working hypothesis can never furnish a ...
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Page 160 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
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Page 43 - The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
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