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  • Don't get blinded by the bright lights of academics and venture capitalists proclaiming MOOCs the best thing ever. (sap.com)
  • Fortunately, there are other ways to start up a company than to secure several hundred thousand pounds from venture capitalists. (growthbusiness.co.uk)
  • Which are the solutions offered by venture capitalists to the firm's financial needs. (unibocconi.eu)
  • Think of everyone, from friends and family to venture capitalists and angel investors. (wittysparks.com)
  • Registered investors can partner with investor syndicates led by notable lead investors - usually venture capitalists with extensive Silicon Valley experience. (moneycrashers.com)
  • I have followed up on that idea from time to time , with the basic idea being that Republicans are in favor of people who call themselves capitalists rather than capitalism itself, whereas even the most progressive Democrats are in favor of making market capitalism work as well as possible. (dorfonlaw.org)
  • On the surface, the meaning of capitalism seems straightforward, referring to an economic system in which private individuals, rather than governments, own property and businesses. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • Capitalism-a system based upon class ownership of the means of wealth production and distribution must invest in order to survive. (worldsocialism.org)
  • From this he inferred that capitalism has two main classes, workers and capitalists. (libcom.org)
  • While state capitalism is at the heart of the governing regime of every country in the modern world, Corbyn and the shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have made explicit their commitment to the strengthening of the role of the capitalist state in all aspects of economic and social life in the UK. (internationalism.org)
  • At one point, Biden called for an end to "shareholder capitalism," meaning a return to a mythical capitalist past when corporations recognized that "they have responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country. (wsws.org)
  • Anti-Trumpism has been the thought taboo, the obstacle, to thinking soberly about Trump's politics and the transformation in world capitalist politics, and whatever lessons that might hold for the potential within capitalism for reviving socialist politics. (platypus1917.org)
  • In analyzing the essay carefully, we find that the moral and social dimensions of conservatism - everything that is encompassed with the word 'life' - have been almost eviscerated by the absolute and unconditional commitment to economic liberalism, the agenda of free market capitalism. (counterpunch.org)
  • It's been a mainstay of the radical left for a long time to blame the lack of radical activity by whatever particular collective subject they believe to have potential on some sort of capitalist subterfuge. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • While most opponents of the wage system blame the capitalist owners of the means of production for its existence, most anarchists and other libertarian socialists also hold the state as equally responsible as it exists as a tool utilised by capitalists to subsidise themselves and protect the institution of private ownership of the means of production. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • The primary stage of socialism (sometimes referred to as the preliminary stage of socialism), introduced into official discourse by Mao Zedong as the initial stage of socialism, is a sub-theory of Chinese Marxist thought which explains why capitalist techniques are used in the Chinese economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not only did the mainly black working class emerge as the Achilles heel of white-minority rule, but its advanced layers saw their fight against the bosses as intimately bound up with the emancipation of the black nation, captured in widely popular slogans like "Socialism Means Freedom! (spartacist.org)
  • Socialism means the ownership of the economy by the entire society, the democratic control of the economy by all of us, and the utilisation of our economic resources to meet the needs of all people -- enabling all people to live full and fulfilling lives characterised by freedom, community and creative labour. (links.org.au)
  • If democracy means "rule by the people" (as it does), socialism is an economic democracy. (links.org.au)
  • There won't be socialism on a rentier, speculative, capitalist economic base. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Promising to reform moribund state-owned enterprises (SOES), Jiang reinterpreted the Marxist concept of state ownership of the means of production to include publicly held stocks (by both individuals and other firms). (nationalinterest.org)
  • This is the historical meaning of the various Marxist-Leninist revolutions. (libcom.org)
  • Trump's approach displays a basic misunderstanding of the alliances' value for the United States . (brookings.edu)
  • The bosses, through their ownership and control of the means of production, have legal ownership of this wealth and decide how it is to be distributed. (libcom.org)
  • Professional staffers took over the foundation and began putting the wealth generated by a great capitalist trailblazer at the service of social engineering schemes and so-called social justice activist organizations. (capitalresearch.org)
  • Industrias del Orinoco, C.A. (Indorca) is a factory without bosses in Puerto Ordaz in Bolívar state, the home of Venezuela's basic industries. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Speaking to press yesterday, Maduro reiterated his commitment to tackling Venezuela's oil-rentier economic model. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • we learned about the obstacles that worker-run factories face in a capitalist society and about Indorcas' collective education initiatives. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Since then, China has demonstrated a further commitment to reform by reducing housing subsidies and the volume of public employment generally--efforts quite likely spurred on by revelations of structural deficiencies in the "Asian model" that have triggered the region's continuing economic crisis. (nationalinterest.org)
  • In the wake of economic and social turmoil in the 19th century, some European countries sought to reform the capitalist system and make it more sustainable. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • 109]. The Marshall Aid funds were important, but after the currency reform (which permitted German capitalists to revalue their assets) and the establishment of a new political system, much more important was the commitment of the United States to rebuilding a free market economy and establishing a democratic government, rather than keeping Germany in a weak position. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • In other words, six corporations own the media's "means of production" in collaboration with advertisers and U.S. intelligence agencies to set the terms of political and social debate. (blackagendareport.com)
  • Her experience of anti-Semitism drove her to explicit political commitments, and she began to work with Zionist organizations conducting research on the dire state of Germany's Jews. (bostonreview.net)
  • Bankruptcy law, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions--all features of a capitalist economy--received the Party's official blessing. (nationalinterest.org)
  • It is likely, therefore, that China's economy will grow enough over time to keep the basic question relevant: Will economic growth produce political liberalization? (nationalinterest.org)
  • They claim not to want to use "activist" policy to guide the economy out of recessions or overheating, because that would mean the government was "picking winners and losers," or something. (dorfonlaw.org)
  • If we had any confidence in Republicans' supposedly core beliefs, repeated again and again by conservative think-tanks and academic economists who cycle in and out of Republican campaigns and administrations, we would expect them to conclude that inflation is currently a global problem on the supply side of the economy (as in supply chains), which would mean that laissez-faire should rule the day. (dorfonlaw.org)
  • A large number of people deciding to work and consume less would mean a shrinking of the economy, a clear threat to those invested in the system. (gettingit.com)
  • It's a false promise, of course, as no purely technological scheme based in a capitalist economy will be able to fix what's coming, but it's a very convenient narrative for capitalist elites to cling to. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The speech was laced with the standard pseudo-populist pablum of American capitalist politics, such as the promise to build "an economy where every American has a chance to get a fair return for the work they put in, an equal chance to get ahead. (wsws.org)
  • It does not mean the government taking care of us, or the government running the economy. (links.org.au)
  • It was grounded in the ideas of the Enlightenment and also of heroic Romanticism, drawing from German philosophy, French revolutionary thought and British political economy, powerfully influenced as well by the capitalist Industrial Revolution and the rise of the working class, and by the struggles of the working class. (links.org.au)
  • Humane schemes that would provide 'social security' meant monetary benefits and entitlements for those cast out of economy and society. (arena.org.au)
  • The article below is a contribution towards demolishing the capitalist misinformation regarding the socialist democracy in Cuba. (mltoday.com)
  • It is socialist democracy expressing itself in such a way that a person who only knows the liberal [capitalist] democracy can never understand. (mltoday.com)
  • According to Professor Burgos-Matamoros, Cuba must be understood as a democracy that is not capitalist, and therefore is instead anchored in another way of organizing life. (mltoday.com)
  • First, there is ownership of land, buildings, and other means of production by a minority capitalist class. (libcom.org)
  • Ownership is indeed the basis of the vastly powerful capitalist class. (libcom.org)
  • Those revolutions eliminated the capitalist class, created economies based on public ownership, but, nonetheless, the working class continued to be subjugated and exploited. (libcom.org)
  • But I think what explanations for our present state of affairs tend to ignore is the basic point that collective action is hard . (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • But it nevertheless captures a basic point about collective action problems: just because something is a net positive from the perspective of an aggregate does not mean that it will necessarily be a net benefit to the individuals making up the aggregate who will do the work of bringing it about. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Capitalists don't need to peel off every worker to reach equilibrium, just enough such that those motivated cannot reach the threshold required for successful collective action. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • If people have only a limited awareness of how many others are committed to radical change or have doubts about the private commitments of others, what can happen is that large numbers of people can hate the regime and are personally willing to risk to bring it down, but nobody is willing to take the necessary steps because they don't believe others are committed. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • This means that our democratic-revolutionary system inexorably presupposes the majority of the people. (mltoday.com)
  • Let's start from the premise that all human beings, just by virtue of being human, are entitled to certain basic conditions of freedom and dignity which have to be respected by others, not just by other individuals but also, and especially, by people in power and by states. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • Some people, especially in advanced capitalist countries and particularly in the United States, claim that there's no such thing as economic and social rights. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • And yet our work held distinction and profound meaning for people of color, especially those at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • At first glance, that statement might lead us to believe the premier, especially given his commitment to act 'for the people,' was vowing Ontario would make sure its workers got as good a deal, or better, than workers elsewhere in the world. (commondreams.org)
  • It is difficult to see how anyone aware of these basic numbers could avoid accepting that people in countries like Australia should be trying move to far simpler and less resource-intensive lifestyles and economies. (edu.au)
  • When speaking of Marxism, I don't just mean the ideas of Karl Marx -- I am referring to a very rich political tradition that encompasses an impressive array of people and experiences. (links.org.au)
  • This means that our production costs are also high, which, in turn, pushes our wages down. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • 41][200] In his Das Kapital, Marx analyzed the "capitalist mode of production" using a method of understanding today known as Marxism. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • The industrial revolution, carried in distinctive economic arrangements (the relations of capitalist production) certainly led to the immiseration of the working and 'residual' classes in that time. (arena.org.au)
  • To suggest that class is the root oppression, however, does not mean that other forms of oppression are less significant or that liberation from them is subsidiary. (rc.org)
  • For Marx, the capitalist stage of development or "bourgeois society" represented the most advanced form of social organization to date, but he also thought that the working classes would come to power in a worldwide socialist or communist transformation of human society as the end of the series of first aristocratic, then capitalist and finally working class rule was reached. (harbenlets.co.uk)
  • But at the same time, do you really need to develop your own basic Excel skills class (or pay a vendor for one) when there are so many free or cheap options out there? (sap.com)
  • This class was created through the way capitalist development changed the labor process and the division of labor. (libcom.org)
  • This can only mean minor modifications in an economic system that is based on the exploitation of the labour power of the working class. (internationalism.org)
  • The construction of belonging, the institutions of care, and possibilities for recognition, all the basic work of culture and social relations, and fundamental to security, took particular form in the modern period. (arena.org.au)
  • This discovery alone is fascinating and unexpected, but in Paradise Solnit wants more: she would have us believe that the temporary societies that arise in disaster are revelations of a fundamental utopian impulse in human nature, which everyday (capitalist) life mystifies. (nplusonemag.com)
  • y, transcomplejo, cada uno de ellos con los elementos paradigmáticos de: ontología, epistemología y metodología, su conocimiento y aplicabilidad en los diferentes ámbitos es fundamental porque sus enfoques generan ciencia. (bvsalud.org)
  • Previous leaders Kinnock, Blair and Brown had all warned that the election of Corbyn would mean that Labour would lose the 2020 general election and could be out of power for a generation. (internationalism.org)
  • Most of that, however, can be attributed to the most basic political hackery. (dorfonlaw.org)
  • I'm also pretty sure that there's wide agreement - no doubt universal agreement, in an audience like this - that those basic conditions of freedom and dignity include certain irreducible civil liberties and political rights, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and assembly, the right to due process of law, the right to vote, and so on. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • Or I could argue that the full realization of civil and political rights ultimately depends on certain basic material and social conditions. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • He applied more widely a concern originating with antisystemic forces, meaning the movements and political forces that assume that the state form has to be overcome. (azzellini.net)
  • It is tied up with the notion that austerity is a political choice, and not something imposed on all capitalist governments by the reality of the capitalist economic crisis. (internationalism.org)
  • Though her other work quickly gave her political game away-a blend of anti-imperialism and anarchism, with a strong ecological bent-you could read River of Shadows without necessarily discerning anything in the way of a particular commitment. (nplusonemag.com)
  • With basic healthcare being stripped away-and communities already impacted by intergenerational trauma experiencing the ongoing trauma of a pandemic, the repealing of reproductive rights, and an epidemic of gun violence-we decided, as we closed, to share our reflections and learning. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Government provision of basic human needs, like healthcare and housing, can fight price shocks and save the planet. (newstatesman.com)
  • The right to choose private health plans is sacrosanct despite rendering a large portion of the U.S. population unable to afford basic healthcare. (blackagendareport.com)
  • It is a system that virtually the whole public in capitalist countries is ignorant of. (mltoday.com)
  • This means fighting unfair trade practices, curbing the theft of intellectual property by countries like China. (wsws.org)
  • The United States has had a naval presence in the Pacific and East Asia since the mid-nineteenth century, but it was not until after World War II that it decided to conclude alliances with friendly regional countries with a commitment to defend them in case of aggression. (brookings.edu)
  • The basic role is to facilitate the efficient operation of the current economic system and to keep the workforce compliant, efficient, and productive. (rc.org)
  • Journalists, like everyone else, exist within a system of U.S. capitalist and imperialist domination. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The positive meaning given to money was positively related to shared money management system, greater dyadic adjustment and lower indices of conflict between the couples. (bvsalud.org)
  • Make sure leadership understands the commitment required to do this right. (sap.com)
  • These business basics will make sure you set off smoothly and start enjoying the fruits of your effort as soon as possible. (wittysparks.com)
  • Both from the government and from the rank and file of the Bolivarian process, there is a declared commitment to redefine State and society on the basis of an interrelation between top and bottom, and thereby to move toward transcending capitalist relations. (azzellini.net)
  • The basic idea is to form council structures of different kinds, especially communal councils, communes and communal cities, which will gradually supplant the bourgeois state. (azzellini.net)
  • Corbyn and McDonnell have also appointed an economic advisory panel including Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, fashionable author Thomas Piketty, and former Bank of England monetary policy committee member Danny Blanchflower, to provide ideas for the reforming of the role of the capitalist state. (internationalism.org)
  • From the vantage point of the hopeful social state, we may find a fateful blindness towards certain 'others' (as Bruce Buchan's article in this issue shows) but also a broad, historically constructed source and setting for personal security, which moreover was part of a virtuous cycle in largely securing the loyalty/commitment of the group to each other and the state as well. (arena.org.au)
  • Public broadcasting in the U.S. has long been hampered by a lack of funding and Washington's firm commitment to privileging corporate networks over the public interest. (blackagendareport.com)
  • That means that all our vehicles, with the exception of the company bus, which brings the workers to the plant and back, are not working at the moment. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • I should say, however, that the workers' care for the equipment and their vast knowledge means that this plant could be running at 100% of installed capacity tomorrow, if we had the inputs we need. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • In fact, he meant just the opposite -- that he would ensure our workers got a worse deal than workers elsewhere. (commondreams.org)
  • But if free choice simply means choosing from among the available options on the supermarket shelf, it is not at all clear how it can do this perfectionist work. (counterpunch.org)
  • Ford has moved quickly to diminish Ontario's safety net, ending the Basic Income project and making cuts to social assistance. (commondreams.org)
  • It is hoped citizens will be encouraged to save more rather than immediately converting income into goods or foreign currencies as a means of conserving the bolivar's value. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Even some who believe in guaranteeing certain basic material and social conditions for everyone don't want to call them rights. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • It is the juncture of the movement's unquestioning commitment to the interests of capital, and its emphasis on moral and social order. (counterpunch.org)
  • Desarrollar capacidades intelectuales en bases contextuales y teóricas en epistemología de la investigación social, indispensables para el ejercicio profesional en el ámbito de la investigación científica y del conocimiento científico. (bvsalud.org)
  • Se logró obtener capacidades intelectuales al estructurar la cronológica de la epistemología de la investigación social, del conocimiento científico y nuevas perspectivas para el ejercicio profesional en el ámbito de la investigación científica. (bvsalud.org)
  • Innovation is the 'magic' that you hope will be included in any strategic service/project relationship, the manifestation of your supplier's passion for their role and their commitment to you as their client. (bestpracticegroup.com)
  • Neither the politicians nor the capitalists were united on this move. (worldsocialism.org)
  • It is what keeps the losers in the game: the knowledge that there is another election coming before too long means no course is ever fixed for good and no defeat need ever be permanent. (lrb.co.uk)
  • If there have been deeper sources of security, they have likely lived on in residual form as 'countercultures', where value and meaning survived away from the market-in families, and other institutions like churches and elements of local community, where values were derived in non-quantifiable terms, lived in 'ritual' and concrete practices, and 'protected' in the densities of communal life. (arena.org.au)
  • So the British capitalists wanting the best of both worlds-the Commonwealth and a tariff agreement, formed with Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Norway the European Free Trade Area (EFTA). (worldsocialism.org)
  • But the British capitalists' appetite had been whetted. (worldsocialism.org)
  • To suggest that the United States would help their defense only if "the price is right" only fosters doubt in the minds of our friends regarding the credibility of our commitment. (brookings.edu)
  • With the World Trade Organization's ultra-global, capitalist hootenanny starting today in that hotbed of anarchism , Seattle, a single question rumbles awake in my usually foggy consciousness, and doesn't seem to want to go back to sleep: What if we all decided to just relax, sit back, and do nothing? (gettingit.com)
  • The commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the acknowledgment of the catastrophic events that will occur if the world does not act soon- these are all healthy signs. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Unlike the notion of anti-socialists of the "Tea Party" variety (and other varieties), it does not mean more government control over our lives. (links.org.au)
  • Assessing the island through liberal [capitalist] glasses is not adequate to understand the reality of that country. (mltoday.com)
  • The material basis of its success is not broad-based commitment but broad-based desperation. (thenation.com)
  • The application was rejected largely due to the attitude of the French Government who wanted total commitment to a European policy-not an applicant with one foot in the Commonwealth and a certain reliance on America. (worldsocialism.org)
  • When mulling over the idea of launching a new company, it is critical to understand the commitment that comes with it. (wittysparks.com)
  • just because you have thought of a brilliant idea doesn't mean no one else has considered the same. (wittysparks.com)
  • So, could parts of Capita be broken away to be sold off in the near future, and if so, what would that mean to those currently being supported or serviced by them? (bestpracticegroup.com)
  • This means spending small amounts of money early, to gain information as to whether its worth spending large amounts later. (growthbusiness.co.uk)
  • disagreement does not necessary mean total rejection, it means that we disagree due to different analyses, different histories and experiences and different solutions to an issue. (docudharma.com)
  • So it's back to the basic point that money is the most binding constraint on the ambitions of an entrepreneur. (growthbusiness.co.uk)
  • the basics in corporate finance, such as CAPM and cost of capital. (unibocconi.eu)
  • So what are the basics you shouldn't miss out on to ensure your startup kicks off on the right foot? (wittysparks.com)