Nowadays we can not escape from social izing with others. Every day we need other people in the world of work, households, and share daily activities, that is why we are so dependent on a phone technol
...he back of the mind while hands, eye and brain became synchronized into shelving that deck of cards. The social and economic impact of gambling has attracted lots of research primarily because they w...
...ttention. Now writers in Hungary, the former Czechoslovakia, and Poland invite us to think about how this social formation is secured and invigorated. We have reasons of our own for accepting the inv...
There is an ambiguity in the idea of "civil society" as the arena of private economic and social relations, rather than of government. First, there is the idea that these relations are freel
... the liberated market forces. As we know from the West, economic power can represent as great a danger to social solidarity, social justice, and autonomy as the power of the modern state. So only a co...
...reater change. For them, civil society was contrasted with political society. Civil society referred to a social order, and most fundamentally, an economic order operating according to its own princip...
...unter, a critic and so forth. So the question latent in this passage is what one loses when one becomes a social category. I suppose that the answer to that, and a potential threat of a focus on civil...
...ureaucratic order. That, in turn, helps to set the stage for my turn to two evolving traditions--Catholic social thought and the democratic theorizing of civil society emerging from Central Eastern Eu...
...aking restoration of civility and commitment to the commons its core theme. The young movement is in part social philosophy and sociology, in part a moral call, and in part a matter of taking a differ...
...rces out of which a new progressive agenda might conceivably be developed. Are we capable of social learning? Are we capable of moral vision? What can we possibly mean by a good society u...
...hey were talking about things like the responsibility that individuals have toward each other in specific social settings, about very elemental human things like trust and betrayal, about the problems...
My own departure from social ism occurred almost fifty years ago. In 1940 I broke with a small Trotskyist, Marxist-Leninist group and for a while belonged to the Norman Thomas social ists. However, by t
...pecially in Eastern Europe) have also come to think about the common label "left" (used by both social democrats and communists)? Is there in the United States a coherent "communitarian...
...t the existing system has broken down." Contrary to Keynes, Joan Robinson stressed the importance of social and economic changes leading to the quality orientation of labor; what matters is havin...
...emocrats as well. Its concreteness would enable middle-class voters to see, in some tangible way, where a social democratic path might take them. Not Utopia, but as far as one could imagine the U.S. D...
...a statement of principle, the Marxism and Leninism as applied by Lenin and Stalin have nothing to do with social ism. They are complete perversions of the great vision of social ism. And instead of crea...
...s ( Wilbur J. Cohen / M. Friedman, J.M. Buchanan, etc.) in a country which, compared with the standard of social welfare in, e.g., Sweden or Germany, might perhaps be counted among the "underdeve...
...s for "dependents"). That is why societies that we have come to regard as modern do not rely on social solidarity but rather on some kind of insurance system or welfare regime that externali...
...same way here. We have had what Michael Harrington used to call 20 years ago a kind of invisible social democracy centered largely in the Democratic Party, but it has been always a social dem...
...tial for multi-polar political conflict. Small wars have once again become a real possibility. Ethnic and social conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe are brewing into equally revolutionary and expl...
...on leading from ethnie towards notions of common citizenship. The "collective uniqueness" of a social entity is a problematic notion for Marxism, which ascribed the most salient features of...
... of production. What is more, they are being lured by the fact that the developed world, including the ex-social ist countries, do not reproduce themselves and therefore have a problem of labor shortag...
...ecularized "high church" worldview--is, from a fundamentalist viewpoint, indistinguishable from social ism. It is therefore greatly to Hunter's credit that he remains neutral. He never st...
...ust as of all democratic tendencies in the Eastern half of Europe, is developing and securing democracy. Social democratic parties have resumed their activities in all post--communist countries. They...
...ndeed liberal and productive forms of capitalism. Invariably, these bear the indelible imprint of Western social ism or of solidaristic social Christianity. The collapse of the Communist regimes by no ...
If the project of the Left is to survive the discredit that the collapse of "actually existing social ism" has thrown over the very idea of social ism, it requires a new formulation. Eve
...and the same. The collapse of communism is not a victory for capitalism, but the sign of the failings of Social Democracy. Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread th...
...on sweeping the industrialized world, on the other. But I also call attention to the tremendous amount of social and political change that has accumulated around the world over the last ten to fifteen...
