Blue sodalite bookend
Polished by Ybelle Boorsma, Amstelveen.
www.amstelveenweb.com/fotodisp&fotodisp=2531
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ABOUT SODALITE
Intuition + Creativity + Inspiration + Focus + Communication
Sodalite is a great stone for the mind. It assists in strengthening intellect, eliminating confusion and balancing emotions. It carries a calm and stable energy that increases consciousness and deepens meditation. This lovely stone is also effective for enhancing inspiration and creativity.
HOME + WORK
Keep Sodalite in the office or workspace, particularly near your computer to protect against electromagnetic pollution. This stone will also enhance creativity and focus, making it an excellent choice for creative individuals.
www.gemrox.com.au/products/sodalite-natural-raw-stone-boo...
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The Struggle for the World, by James Burnham
by Maurice Goldbloom
The Communist Conspiracy. The Struggle for the World. by James Burnham.
New York, John Day, 1947. 248 pp. $3.00.
James Burnham has a regrettable knack for proceeding with inexorable logic from major premises which are almost correct, by way of minor premises a little less sound, to conclusions which are largely wrong.
Thus, he recognizes and clearly laments the fact that in contemporary political life the traditional values of Western civilization are shot to hell, despite the widespread lip-service which they receive. He is particularly distressed when the Communists reap the benefit of this almost unanimous agreement to accept the validity of moral principles but leave their realization to some future date, while, in the name of “science” and “pragmatism” and “realism” and a hundred other euphemisms, all immediate and pressing problems are solved in accordance with the good old law of tooth and claw.
But in his very justifiable antipathy to Communism—which certainly represents the most dangerous single form of political amorality in the world today—Mr. Burnham permits himself a sort of perverse and devil-worshipping idealization of the Communists which warps both his insight and his own political morals.
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The Coming Defeat of Communism, by James Burnham by Richard H.S. Crossman
Marxism Through the Looking Glass
The Coming Defeat of Communism.
by James Burnham. John Day.
278 pp. $3.00.
In previous books, James Burnham has revealed a new insight into the factors of modern industrial society which Communist theoreticians still obstinately overlook. In the sense that a modern biologist is still a Darwinian, though he may have discarded practically all of Darwin’s special theories, Mr. Burnham is still a Marxist, although—or is it because?—he is now an ideological anti-Communist.
Marx’s contribution to world science lay in his new, dialectical approach to politics, the attempt not merely to analyze social change in terms of economic forces, but to see ideas, moralities, and persons as expressions of a dialectical process in history. To become free men, we must discover our slavery; to release our will power, we must see the enemy in all his vast strength, and yet believe that an inevitable world development will give us victory over him. It is highly significant that, in his latest book, after outlining a policy which is beyond the capacities of the Western democracies, Mr. Burnham concludes with a chapter headed “The Inevitability of Communist Defeat.” Marx’s writings a hundred years ago contained the same emotional contradiction. Over hundreds of pages he would catalogue the complex power, the ruthless cunning, the implacable hostility of the capitalist enemy, and prophesy darkly the inevitable world clash between this monstrous demon and an almost defenseless proletariat. Then, almost casually at the end, his readers would be informed that the proletariat was bound to win.
www.commentary.org/articles/richard-s/the-coming-defeat-o...
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I (MK) greatly admired Burnham's book 'The Managerial Revolution' . Written in 1941, Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers.
Blue sodalite bookend
Polished by Ybelle Boorsma, Amstelveen.
www.amstelveenweb.com/fotodisp&fotodisp=2531
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ABOUT SODALITE
Intuition + Creativity + Inspiration + Focus + Communication
Sodalite is a great stone for the mind. It assists in strengthening intellect, eliminating confusion and balancing emotions. It carries a calm and stable energy that increases consciousness and deepens meditation. This lovely stone is also effective for enhancing inspiration and creativity.
HOME + WORK
Keep Sodalite in the office or workspace, particularly near your computer to protect against electromagnetic pollution. This stone will also enhance creativity and focus, making it an excellent choice for creative individuals.
www.gemrox.com.au/products/sodalite-natural-raw-stone-boo...
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The Struggle for the World, by James Burnham
by Maurice Goldbloom
The Communist Conspiracy. The Struggle for the World. by James Burnham.
New York, John Day, 1947. 248 pp. $3.00.
James Burnham has a regrettable knack for proceeding with inexorable logic from major premises which are almost correct, by way of minor premises a little less sound, to conclusions which are largely wrong.
Thus, he recognizes and clearly laments the fact that in contemporary political life the traditional values of Western civilization are shot to hell, despite the widespread lip-service which they receive. He is particularly distressed when the Communists reap the benefit of this almost unanimous agreement to accept the validity of moral principles but leave their realization to some future date, while, in the name of “science” and “pragmatism” and “realism” and a hundred other euphemisms, all immediate and pressing problems are solved in accordance with the good old law of tooth and claw.
But in his very justifiable antipathy to Communism—which certainly represents the most dangerous single form of political amorality in the world today—Mr. Burnham permits himself a sort of perverse and devil-worshipping idealization of the Communists which warps both his insight and his own political morals.
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The Coming Defeat of Communism, by James Burnham by Richard H.S. Crossman
Marxism Through the Looking Glass
The Coming Defeat of Communism.
by James Burnham. John Day.
278 pp. $3.00.
In previous books, James Burnham has revealed a new insight into the factors of modern industrial society which Communist theoreticians still obstinately overlook. In the sense that a modern biologist is still a Darwinian, though he may have discarded practically all of Darwin’s special theories, Mr. Burnham is still a Marxist, although—or is it because?—he is now an ideological anti-Communist.
Marx’s contribution to world science lay in his new, dialectical approach to politics, the attempt not merely to analyze social change in terms of economic forces, but to see ideas, moralities, and persons as expressions of a dialectical process in history. To become free men, we must discover our slavery; to release our will power, we must see the enemy in all his vast strength, and yet believe that an inevitable world development will give us victory over him. It is highly significant that, in his latest book, after outlining a policy which is beyond the capacities of the Western democracies, Mr. Burnham concludes with a chapter headed “The Inevitability of Communist Defeat.” Marx’s writings a hundred years ago contained the same emotional contradiction. Over hundreds of pages he would catalogue the complex power, the ruthless cunning, the implacable hostility of the capitalist enemy, and prophesy darkly the inevitable world clash between this monstrous demon and an almost defenseless proletariat. Then, almost casually at the end, his readers would be informed that the proletariat was bound to win.
www.commentary.org/articles/richard-s/the-coming-defeat-o...
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I (MK) greatly admired Burnham's book 'The Managerial Revolution' . Written in 1941, Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers.