... for religious authorities sought extensive involvement and control of education in order to control the masses. The fundamental religious affiliations which struggled against one another in pre-confederation Canada were the Anglicans, the Roman Catholics and the Protestant dissenters who immigrated approximately fifty years after the American Revolution (Mifflen and Mifflen, 1982: 19). As early as 1791 ... School Act of 1863", this system was incorporated in "the British North America Act of 1867", and the "formal education system of Ontario" was substantially adopted in later years in t...

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... Über den Mehrwert (Theory of Surplus Value) (1862). Marx and his colleague Friedrich Engels issued the Manifest der kommunistischen Partei ( Communist Manifesto) (1848) in the explicit hope of precipitating social revolution. This work describes the class struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie, distinguishes communism from other socialist movements, proposes a list of specific social reforms, and urges ... declaration of principles and objectives of the Communist League (a secret organization of émigré German artisans and intellectuals), published in London in 1848, shortly befo...

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... technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed ... as political turmoil created the Great Depression. The contemporary phase of globalization only started to return global economic activity to nineteenth-century levels in the late 1970s. Techno...

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... process by which human beings create machines to automatically perform productive work, was and is the most far-reaching change in human history. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution the focus of human activity shifted dramatically, away from the agricultural village and seasonal way of life. The Industrial Revolution changed virtually everything. For the parts of the world that experienced this transformation, nothing ... their will and life style upon the rest of the globe while revolutionizing their own social structures. Urbanization, changes in the status of women and childr...

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... , would eventually choke on its own wealth (Pious 25). The collapse of the capitalist economy, it was thought, would culminate in a political revolution in which the masses of the poor would rebel against their oppressors. This proletarian revolution would do away with private ownership of the means of production. Run by and for the people (after a brief period of proletarian dictatorship), ... the number of Communist regimes. The Communist governments that remain pay allegiance to Marx and Lenin, but differ from each other not only in size and industrial development but also in their un...

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... , the experience of a Third World raw material exporting country is not going to resemble at all the experience of a wealthier industrialized country whose gross national product is more connected to industrial output and secondary or tertiary enterprise. Third World producers will continue to be at the mercy of world price fluctuations and perhaps more so than ... only to the past, or to misguided attempts at social equalization that were destined to fail. Globalization has produced a sharpening of some common problems in Third World societies, a bloc involving billions of the world's l...

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... France soon abandoned the treaty with the outbreak of her revolution, ironically increasing tariffs. The move towards free trade was only resumed by William Huskisson, president of the Board of Trade from 1823 to 1827. Another avid follower of Smith, he lowered the maximum duty on imported manufactures from 50% to 30% in a hope to set an example to other countries. He ... a doctrine described by Karl Marx, 1818-1883 which denies the merit of a free market economy. Marx bases this upon his experience of the dismal life of workers in the industrial capitalism he lived (in reality, a pheno...

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... much as the Chinese, per capita. By 1999, they were only earning 7.4 times as much. The gap between rich and poor is also shrinking with most nations in Asia and Latin America. Many people believe that exports create jobs, and imports cost jobs and that it therefore makes sense to have barriers against imports. This thinking led to the Great Depression ... trade to be restricted to support human rights, labor rights and environmental objectives in other countries. The WTO and trade agreements should also allow non-government organizations a direct voice in their governance. The freeing of...

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... could be counterbalanced by modernizing paeans to personal efficiency." (_Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America_, Jackson Lears, Basic Books, 1994, pp. 110-111) Lears is here charting the course of the transformation from early capitalism to modernist capitalism. In early capitalism, precapitalist ways of thinking about the relation of the person to the environment still existed. ... the relationship between fecundity and sexuality was quite clear. However, with modernist (or monopoly) capitalism abundance becomes identified with industrial products. And it is...

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... the richest '1% of the population owned 42% of personal wealth, 5% owned 75% and 10% owned 83%', and America's similar statistics that in 1953, 75% of corporate stock was divided between 1% of adults' (Miliband pp25-26), he attacks any belief in 'People's Capitalism' as invalid due to the fact that this 1% is a 'self-perpetuating oligarchy' entirely inaccessible to ... wholly owned and efficiently run by owner-entrepreneurs' (p36), not the symptom of a 'transcendence of capitalism', but rather the enlargement of it. Quoting Meynaud's La Technocratie, in which the Fren...

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