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	Links from the Slovak Embassy
		Indeed, its territory was encroached upon or its fate was jointly shaped by great empires: the Roman and Byzantine Empires, by the Frank Empire in the ninth century, by the Osman Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and, in the twentieth century, by Germany and Russia.
		The social and cultural development on the whole was retarded, however, by the backward political situation in Hungary.
		The stability of the young state was strengthened also by strong concerns in the face of the revisionist demands of Hungary whose governments between the wars sought to reconstitute pre-war Hungary.
	www.slovakembassy-us.org /history.html (7611 words)

	Socialism
		Social Democrats regard such a system as desirable and achievable, indeed, many would argue it already exists in some states.
		Among a number of right-wing conservatives, particularily in the United States, this type of "socialism" is regarded as essentially equivalent to the almost universally disliked Soviet style (communist-run) economic system.
		According to Marx, socialism is the period of transition between the overthrow of bourgeois rule and the development of a classless, communist society.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/SocialisM.html (1275 words)

	deng's theory and destiny of socialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Second, the socialist system is a completely new social system in the history of mankind and its development has to undergo a long historical process from inexperience to experience, from imperfect to perfect, from immature to mature.
		The theory of socialism created by Marx and Engels reveals the historical inevitability of the substitution of socialism for capitalism, and the basic laws to be followed in accomplishing this substitution.
		He repeatedly emphasized that, “There is no fundamental contradiction between socialism and a market economy.”[xxviii] We must understand theoretically that the difference between capitalism and socialism is not a market economy as opposed to a planned economy.
	www.cpim.org /marxist/200102_marxist_deng_yang.htm (6589 words)

	Socialism, by Robert Heilbroner: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Whether socialism in some form will eventually return as a major organizing force in human affairs is unknown, but no one can accurately appraise its prospects who has not taken into account the dramatic story of its rise and fall.
		This brief mixture of socialism and capitalism came to an end in 1927 after Stalin instituted the process of forced collectivization that was to mobilize Russian resources for its leap into industrial power.
		In retrospect, we can see that the task facing Lenin and Stalin in the early years was not so much economic as quasi-military—mobilizing a peasantry into a work force to build roads and rail lines, dams and electric grids, steel complexes and tractor factories.
	www.econlib.org /LIBRARY/Enc/Socialism.html (1870 words)

	portland imc - 2004.02.23 - Socialism and Christianity
		Socialism was rejected in the 1864 "Syllabus" (Pope Pius IX).
		However a certain nearness to socialism befits liberation theology since a clear criticism of the capitalist economic system is leveled by theologians of liberation and in official statements of the Latin American bishops' conferences of Medellin (1968) and Puebla (1979).
		The urgently necessary challenge for socialism today of tackling the political and economic structures of dependence on the international plane in the North-South conflict, supporting the emancipatory movements in the Third World and championing more justice in the international political and economic system was already recognized by Karl Marx.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/02/281105.shtml (3318 words)

	Socialism - Charles' George Orwell Links
		By the time of the Revolution of 1848 there were a variety of competing "socialisms", ranging from the socialism of Charles Fourier to the self-described "scientific" socialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
		Social democracy typically involves state ownership of some corporations (considered strategically important to the people) and participation in ownership of the means of production by workers.
		Another defect of socialism, according to its detractors, is its disregard for the role of private property in creating incentives that foster the sustainable use of resources.
	www.netcharles.com /orwell/articles/col-socialism.htm (6445 words)

	Slavoj Zizek-Bibliography/Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism/Lacan Dot Com
		In dissecting Late Socialism, Havel was always aware that Western liberal democracy was far from meeting the ideals of authentic community and 'living in truth' on behalf of which he and other dissidents opposed Communism.
		So while in the specific case of Late Socialism the idea of civil society refers to the opening up of a space of resistance to 'totalitarian' power, there is no essential reason why it cannot provide space for all the politico-ideological antagonisms that plagued Communism, including nationalism and opposition movements of an anti-democratic nature.
		This ideology of global victimisation, the identification of the human subject as 'something that can be hurt', is the perfect fit for today's global capitalism, though most of the time it remains invisible to the public eye.
	lacan.com /zizek-capitalism.htm (4844 words)

	Anthony de Jasay, The State, Chapter 5.2: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Hence schemes of social explanation built on the threesome of citizenry, bureaucracy and state always contain some variant of the familiar case about the "growing separation of ownership and control." For this thesis, ownership has come to be reduced to a right to any (private or social) dividends the managing bureaucracy chooses to distribute.
		Whether a social system is acceptable or awful, whether people are on the whole contented or miserable under it, depends very much on the variable personal traits of members of the bureaucracy.
		Finally, it is by implication to allot to the human qualities of this category an overriding influence on the quality of social life, as if the variable disposition and character of office-holders could altogether swamp the systemic constants which are the source of the power delegated to such offices.
	www.econlib.org /LIBRARY/LFBooks/Jasay/jsyStt27.html (2872 words)

	Socialism’s Obituary Is Premature
		In an effort to draw their views out further, I asked whether we were likely to see something like the "socialism with a human face" to which the 1968 Czech reform movement had aspired.
		Tillich’s religious socialism, which took class struggle more seriously, was also more precise in its criticism of capitalism—though he also accepted a limited place for a regulated free-market mechanism.
		Human life in society is not simply the intersection of producing, consuming, trading and competing individuals.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=207 (2056 words)

	Forty Years from the Publishing of the “Civilization at the Crossroad” and the Crossroad of the Recent Civilization
		Dubček´s third way of “socialism with the human face” was objectively only a transition stage to restoration of capitalism with all its, now more obvious, problems.
		One of the important preconditions for the success of human reason in putting through humanism that corresponds to human substance and specificity of human kin, is to positively surmount all forms of false consciousness and its position in the world.
		One is reminded of the situation, long time ago with the utopia socialism, which was described that to the not yet ripe situation corresponded not yet ripe theories.
	www.marxmail.org /crossroads.htm (3671 words)

	20th WCP: Main Trends of Contemporary Russian Thought
		This tendency suffered a severe political blow with the 1968 failure to build "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia, which revealed the incompatibility of humanism and Soviet Marxism.
		Cosmism is a philosophy of active evolutionism, presupposing the possibility and necessity for the human mind to regulate and transform the laws of nature.
		Cosmism explains historical, social and psychological processes by the influences of cosmic energies and asserts a reciprocal dependency of the fates of the universe on the activity of human mind.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContEpst.htm (5175 words)

	News and Letters, October 2004
		While the scope of social alienation in Bush's USA was exposed and given voice, a growing sentiment is emerging, that choices under capitalism are inadequate and a real alternative is needed.
		Marxist humanist Karel Kosik emphasized that philosophy is "an indispensable human activity," a view which he actively promoted before and during the movement to create "socialism with a human face" in Czechslovakia in 1968.
		Humanity is now on the threshold of ultimate self-instrumentation in the creation of bio-technological life forms that may very well have the potential to threaten the survival of the human species.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2004/October/index.htm (489 words)

	Amazon.com: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism: Books: Joshua Muravchik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Just a few generations ago, socialism was regarded as the wave of the future by millions of "enlightened" thinkers across the world; the promise of socialism motivated hard-line Marxists, Western-educated men of the Third World who fought for political independence, and Americans and Europeans repelled by the inequalities of capitalism.
		Human nature has been at the heart of the failures of socialism to produce the results it sought, even when socialist leaders were idealists like Julius Nyerere in Tanzania or Pandit Nehru in India.
		Socialism has long sought to create a heaven on earth but an even older philosophy pointed out that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
	www.amazon.com /Heaven-Earth-Rise-Fall-Socialism/dp/1893554457 (2566 words)

	Socialism - Wikinfo
		Social Democrats regard such a system as desirable and achievable, indeed, many would argue it already exists in some states.
		This description fits many dissidents within the Soviet bloc of Marxist-Leninist states, such as Czechoslovakian president Alexander Dubcek, who attempted to implement "Socialism with a Human Face" before his country was invaded and occupied by Warsaw Pact troops.
		This may be a representative democracy in the style of European parliaments and congresses, or another type, usually described as closer to direct democracy.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialism (2173 words)

	Socialism With A Human Face@Everything2.com
		In other words, they viewed socialism as similar to capitalism in its rewarding people for what they do, but different from it in that everyone was giving it his best shot.
		Dubcek's socialism with a human face came to an abrupt end on August 21, 1968 when the armies of several Communist countries invaded Czechoslovakia, and forced two more decades of Soviet style Communism on the country.
		I have to say that the brief period of socialism with a human face was the best period of my entire life.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=984433 (836 words)

	The Economics of Bertrand de Jouvenel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It [socialism] has become a kind of millenarian belief that beyond the misery, the abuses, the routine of the world as it is organized, there is a "socialism with a human face" which will somehow gather people under one canopy, enabling them to work and play, cry and laugh, become open to each other.
		It remains to be shown what value these social groups or aggregates have for society, the economy, and the relationship of freedom and progress.
		In the face of modern society, the poor have become a scandal, and poverty has had to be eliminated like some blot on the parchment of progress.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/1998_oct/luckey.html (8057 words)

	Selections from Vaclav Klaus at conservativeforum.org
		On the contrary, I am a true believer in the Hayekian evolutionary process of formation of all complex human institutions, but I know that after dismantling institutions of one social system, the institutional vacuum must be rapidly filled with new rules of the game, both formal (laws) and informal (patterns of conduct).
		We knew there was no fundamental structural difference between communism and socialism, that the system was not reformable, that there was nothing like socialism with a human face, and that there was no third way between capitalism and socialism.
		It would be a disaster to accept the accusations of enemies of democratic capitalism that economic behavior is egoistic, whereas political behavior is or should be altruistic, that economic transactions and morality are incompatible, that culture is noble and superior, whereas financial markets are nasty and inferior, and so forth.
	www.conservativeforum.org /authquot.asp?ID=1104 (683 words)

	Discovering China: The Cultural Revolution
		Khrushchov suggested the "line of peaceful compromise", and he maintained that the way to reach socialism was through a variety of processes.
		In 1966 and 1977 at Czech Slovakia, "Socialism having the human face" was liberated from deficiency and the secret police, but it was oppressed by tanks sent by the Soviet in August, 1968.
		Besides, the relation between China and Soviet, the first socialism nation and the once ideal country for China was getting worse day by day.
	library.thinkquest.org /26469/cultural-revolution/coldwar.html (754 words)

	Vox Popoli: National Socialism with a human face
		Vox Popoli: National Socialism with a human face
		Up to 5.9million children face having their fingerprints taken by schools in another move towards a 'Big Brother' society.
		Pupils will have to hand over their biometric details simply to borrow library books or gain access to school dinners.
	voxday.blogspot.com /2007/04/national-socialism-with-human-face.html (274 words)

	Russia, History, Perestroika - JRL 3-4-05
		All the key political figures of that period are still ready to debate with their opponents and most Russians still do not see the results of the changes yet.
		People who hardly survived the replacement of social benefits with cash payments are now concerned about the upcoming housing and communal reform.
		Gorbachev's attempt to build 'socialism with a human face' and carry out democratic reforms without social upheavals was a failure.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9077-9.cfm (596 words)

	The rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic Monthly Review - Find Articles
		The means of production were, finally, not more highly socialized, because the state property designated as people's property was governed by a centrally organized state, that is, in the last analysis the man at the head of the party and state was perhaps the only one who could feel like an owner.
		The failures and ultimate collapse of socialism in the GDR can be traced to complex historical factors, which I consider under the five headings that follow.
		In contrast, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the Soviet zone proposed the establishment of a democratic socialist society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n11_v43/ai_12126487 (975 words)

	Czech imbalances - The Phoenix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Under Alexander Dubcek, “socialism with a human face” was transforming the country and challenging the hidebound Stalinism of Moscow.
		Socialism lost its human face and the country’s New Wave was dispersed or squashed.
		I’m referring, of course, to Jan Svankmajer, whose pixilated stop-action animation merges the realms of the inhuman and human, the living and dead, in a surreal fusion reminiscent of David Cronenberg or Tim Burton.
	www.thephoenix.com /PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=20815 (1239 words)

	Socialism and Christianity : Indybay
		In 1919 Karl Barth wrote: “If God is who the New Testament calls God, the conversion of all things, the renewal of the whole world, a change of the structure where no stone remains on another, is imperative, not merely changing a few things.
		The saying in Mark 10,42-44 is important for the church community: “You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
		The suspicion that those claiming the necessary connection of Christianity and socialism transfer the doctrine of the one and only Church – a doctrine that should be rejected – to the one and only socialism would charge socialism with an authoritarian, totalitarian, religiously motivated ideology.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/02/23/16711201.php (2607 words)

	Praxis, cognition, and revolution - News & Letters, October 2004
		As against the claim that "philosophy ‘as such’ has come to an end," he wrote: "It is not true that philosophy is merely an alienated expression of alienated conditions and that this description exhausts its character and mission.
		He became a leading activist in the Prague Spring of 1968--the effort to create "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia.
		Though in private he continued to champion Marx for "delineating the domination of the human by the inhuman," he did not return to further develop the explicitly Marxian philosophic themes that characterized his DIALECTICS OF This may have impacted his view of the political situation.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2004/October/Praxis_Oct2004.htm (947 words)

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		She understood that the stakes were high, that the fate of humanity was at stake and, as a woman of action, she gave herself completely to the great historic battle..
		The task of Social Democracy and its leaders it not to let themselves be dragged along in the wake of events, but deliberately to forge ahead of them, to foresee the trend of events, to shorten development by conscious action, and to accelerate its progress..
		a world in which the mass slaughter of human beings has degenerated into a monotonous daily task, in which business flourished on mass ruin, and in which the mad hunt for war profits was praised as an expression of the same patriotism which led others to lay down their lives on the battlefield..
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/Luxemburg.html (6262 words)

	Amazon.com: Socialism: Past and Future: Books: Michael Harrington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Harrington put a human face on socialism, tearing it away from the widespread Stalinist stereotype and reclaiming it for those of us who believe socialism is fundamentally democratic.
		Michael Harrington's Socialism: Past and Future is yet another example of Socialists' misconception of the common man. Many socialist writers, namely Marx and Engels, assume that the reader knows about socialism already, and has studied basic economics.
		Socialism: Past and Future is his last book, and offers a clear picture of not only what democratic socialists believe, but also how socialists propose to deal with the problems of today's society.
	www.amazon.com /Socialism-Past-Future-Michael-Harrington/dp/0451628543 (1318 words)

	CNN Cold War - Profile: Alexander Dubcek
		During this period the party faced challenges both internally and externally: the economy was in serious disarray, the Slovak communists chafed at Prague centralism, and de-Stalinization caused unrest.
		During the resulting "Prague Spring" (March-August 1968), Dubcek attempted to reform the Communist Party and allow "socialism with a human face." Under Dubcek, the Prague Spring transformed the lives and social relations among all Czechs, party and non-party members alike.
		The Prague Spring, however, caused great concern among Eastern bloc nations and the U.S.S.R. Dubcek attempted to reassure the Soviets that they were still good communists friendly to Moscow, while arguing that the reforms were an internal matter.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/dubcek (538 words)

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