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The late 1970’s marked a break in the post-war compact between labor and capital , the tacit arrangement following World War II where businesses compromised with labor unions in exchange for stability and economic growth. In 1980, we saw the overwhelmingly popular elections of Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the UK. At home, Paul... See more
Are We Seeing a Political Realignment?
And while traditionalists, taking their cues from Aristotle, Aquinas, and Burke, believed that man was naturally sociable and tended toward consensus, so long as there was the faithful transmission of an ethical tradition, Burnham saw only conflict. This bedrock belief in the “irrational” and violent core of man and the primacy of conflict over
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In their eyes, reform was entirely enlightened policy, and in advocating it, they repeatedly invoked the rhetoric of "freedom," "modernity," and "liberty."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
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than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).