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Social Processes Mass Media
1,111 wordsSUMMARY REPORT Although we use the term "the state" freely in everyday discussion and assume that others know what we are talking about, a little consideration will show that such an explicit entity is, in fact, rather difficult to identify. Although many state institutions are easy to distinguish, it is difficult to generalize in visible terms what the state actually is. Miliband started by raising the essential question of why it was that the state, even if it had a democratic body of laws and...
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The State In Capitalist Society
1,139 words... it for them) that this action is commonly seen as intolerable. The proletariat may lobby and demonstrate for industrial (workplace) democracy; this can be tolerated. It is when they unilaterally implement it themselves at the base level (the worker's shop floor) that police are brought in. Concerned citizens can appeal to the government to end abuses by government operated security agencies; this can be tolerated. However; when they (the citizens) investigate the agencies themselves and publ...
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Capitalism And African American History
2,551 wordsAt the base of the South African and American systems of racial discrimination is an understanding and internalization of the structural implications of capitalism and its accompanying spirit. Applying Karl Marx's and Adam Smith's definition of capitalism in conjunction with Max Weber's understanding of the "spirit of capitalism", it is here affirmed that a golden thread of capitalist thought serves both as initiator and sustainer of ideals necessary for the systematic oppression of "black peopl...
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Capitalism And African American History
2,524 words... ola collapsed. The Soweto uprising of 1976 signaled the beginning of broad-based black resistance. To survive in the changing political environment the NP government developed a series of new responses. The 1977 White Paper on Defense encapsulated the belief of the security establishment that the country faced a total onslaught on virtually every area of society. The Botha government, which came to power in 1978, broke with the past in openly seeking the support of the English-speaking capta...
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East India Company Laissez Faire
2,719 wordsIndia was a direct colony of the British and the impact of this colonial rule over the economy and society of India has been immense. It must be stated at the outset that direct colonial rule leaves a total impact on the colonized society because every aspect of social life is influenced by colonial policies of the colonizers. A direct colony (as was the case with India) is under the complete control of the colonizers and colonial policies and interests influence every aspect of social life of a...
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Radical Feminism Liberal Feminists
2,592 wordsIt can be said that the state is a category of abstraction that is too aggregative, too unitary and too unspecific to be of much use in addressing the disaggregated, diverse and specific (or local) sites that must be of most pressing concern to feminists. (Allen 1990) The difficulty of any theory of the state is an obvious one. The state is a generalization that is constantly shifting and redefining itself and the power paradigms that exist within it. Therefore, it is difficult to agree on an id...
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English Civil War Relations Of Production
5,853 words[ Introduction to Marxism ] Introduction to Marxist theory on history Historical Materialism: the marxist view of history The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to each other, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of s...
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