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This book provides actionable solutions to many of the problems facing the world today, and it all starts with direct democracy - online voting. This revolutionary system of government aims to take the power away from short-sighted and self-serving politicians and give the final decision making ability to the masses. We can, and must, keep evolving democracy to what is possible in this technological age and truly give the power to the people. The...
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A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
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In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader of this volume senses that Mill is being pulled in opposing directions: steadfastly committed to majority rule with minority rights while at the same time being just enough of an aristocrat to believe that the masses need exemplars to emulate. This edition...
64) Political Ideals
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In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way. The times through which we are passing have afforded to many of us a confirmation of our faith. We see that the things we had thought evil are really evil, and we know more definitely than we ever did before the directions in which men must move if a better world is to arise on the ruins of the...
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It is their moment in history. The next Camelon generation begins with the passing of King Dewi of Wales, slain by marauding Roman legions left in the area. His eighty-year-old granddaughter Creirwy, the Mother Superior of Pembrokeshire abbey, learns of his untimely, demise as chaos descends on the world. The surviving descendants of Camelon regroup in secrecy with the help of the sea dragons reunite in an underground portal beneath the abbey.
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66) Nationalism
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Nationalism is based on lectures delivered by him during the First World War. While the nations of Europe were doing battle, Tagore urged his audiences in Japan and the United States to eschew political aggressiveness and cultural arrogance. The lectures emphasize Tagore's political and philosophical views on human understanding and its weakness for power and material hoardings. Tagore's Nationalism holds much relevance in today's environment of violence...
67) Anarchism
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Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy, which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism (known as "anarchists") advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.
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Qu'est-ce que l'anarchie et que veulent les anarchistes ? Un humaniste curieux et désireux de comprendre interroge son fils, un militant anarchiste qui s'est penché sur le sujet.
Au fil de leur dialogue, les deux hommes remontent aux racines des notions d'anarchie et de démocratie. Ils évoquent certaines figures de l'anarchisme et les différents courants de ce mouvement révolutionnaire, tout en illustrant leurs propos d'exemples tirés...
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In light of the predatory practices employed by massive corporations some of which are even bigger than nations and their wealthy owners, a movement arose from among the people known as the 99 percent, those who are not among the wealthiest 1 percent of the population. The world watched as members of the Occupy movement poured into the streets, demanding that those responsible for the economic crises faced by the world be held accountable for their...
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Get the Summary of Mark R. Levine's Unfreedom of the Press in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mark R. Levin is a master statesman as well as a respected journalist. He believes there is an anomaly present in the operations of the modern American press, whose effects may be devastating even to the public. Hence, in this book he explains his fears and calls for a quick intervention to correct...
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L'agonie du capitalisme appelle le coup de grâce de l'anarchie. Propriété, patrie, famille, armée, justice: toutes les institutions de la société bourgeoise ne pourront résister aux assauts conjugués de l'anarchisme et de ses défenseurs. Voilà en substance ce que prne La société mourante et l'anarchie, rédigé en prison et publié pour la première fois en 1893, et qui valut à son auteur d'être renvoyé derrière les barreaux pour deux...
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What impels someone to abandon middle-class privilege for the sake of revolution? In the 1960s, Meinhof began to see the world in increasingly stark terms: the United States was emerging as an unstoppable superpower, massacring a tiny country overseas despite increasingly popular dissent at home; and Germany appeared to be run by former Nazis. Never before translated into English, Meinhof's writings show a woman increasingly engaged in the major political...
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This volume is formed from a collection of memoirs discovered in 1898 at the University of Munich in Bavaria. Sebastian Pierre Drechsler was a student and eventually lecturer at Ingolstadt University between 1783 – 1800, before the faculty was closed down. He later went on to become Professor and then Director of History at Munich University until he retired in 1833. It is understood that the original memoirs were dictated by the scholar on his...
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RAÚL RICARDO ALFONSÍN, un líder democrático que supo echar luz al amanecer de la república. EN SU HOMENAJE
La democracia nace de la voluntad de la ley, se consolida con el cumplimiento de los estándares republicanos y prolonga en el tiempo a través de la práctica social.
Esta obra tiene el propósito de marcar sus lugares oscuros, aquéllos que generan la sensación de descrédito y fracaso y una mirada descreída de gran parte de la sociedad...
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Is war and conflict ever completely resolved in the discussion of international relations? Why mention the opium epidemic in Afghanistan in a study about the de-escalation of conflict in Iraq? How can relationships with moderate Sunni tribes in Iraq be rebuilt into an alliance for the preservation of the democratic peace? The subject of this American foreign policy for Iraq included an episode of conflict that started in March of 2003 and lasted for...
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Las democracias liberales comparten la entronización de la libertad de expresión como valor fundamental del sistema político. Sin embargo, no todos los que afirman este valor coinciden en su contenido y alcances. Nuestra comprensión acerca del significado de la libertad de expresión y las responsabilidades estatales necesarias para asegurar su goce varía en función de la teoría que justifique y sustente esa libertad. En el debate jurídico...
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Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was, characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as "the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation." In this, new PM Press initiative, Goodman's literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered, together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.
Here will be, found the "utopian essays and practical proposals" that inspired the dissident youth of the Sixties,...
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Preparation determines success. Thus revolutionaries better do everything possible to prepare themselves for revolution. Sometimes, one does not know exactly how to prepare for revolution, so this work provides key principles for revolution preparation. If you want to become a successful revolutionary, read this book! 25 pages.
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Six smart and imaginative people form a book club to discuss a list of politically significant fiction from the 20th-century. They examine the qualities of democrats in portraits of Lincoln by Gore Vidal and William Safire and Stuff Happens, a satirical play about George W. Bush's war on Iraq in 1982. They analyze books about demagogues, including Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. They talk about dictators...
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"La historia de los anarquistas es la historia de las experiencias migratorias", ha dicho Christian Ferrer y son los inmigrantes quienes actualizan de mejor modo aquel pasaje evangélico en el que se afirma a Nicodemo que todos tenemos derecho a un segundo nacimiento.
Rafael Barrett "nació con veintisiete años y murió con siete", afirma Santiago Alba. Rafael y Luce Fabbri, inmigrantes europeos en América, personifican la trayectoria de las ideas...
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