Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content--even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of the first prime minister-- is cultural ca...
Sweezy argued on the basis of Marx and Keynes that “accumulation is the primary factor” in capitalist development, yet noted that its influence was waning. “There is no mechanism in the system,” he explained, “for adjusting investment oppor...
Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.
...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existenc...
In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the periodic sale of himself, by his change of masters, and by the oscillation in the market price of labor ...
The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated...
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.
And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
Any punishment is an insult to the crime
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie.
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
