A Qualitative Life in the Face of a Quantative Society: Sheelagh Morris’s “Letter to a Cat” Sheelagh Morris’s short story‚ “Letter to a Cat‚” is a dramatization of the conflict between two sets of life-values: the qualitative and the quantative. Norma is someone who has qualitative values‚ that is‚ someone who values such things as literature and art. We term such a person as one with qualitative values‚ because‚ even while such things as literature and art may be considered “valuable‚” they
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Fuehrer‚ the leader‚ he promised to bring Germany out of chaos. * In Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)‚ Hitler set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the Nazi Party. * Nazism is the German brand of fascism‚ based on extreme nationalism. * Hitler‚ who had been born in Austria‚ dreamed of uniting all German speaking people in a great German empire. * Hitler wanted to enforce racial “purification” at home. In his view‚ Germans‚ especially blue-eyed
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Despite its complete control on the public life‚ it is not like the confining‚ full time prison of the totalitarian regime‚ where the state controls the private as well as the public domain. Although they are on opposite sides of the political ladder‚ fascism (Mussolini/right wing) and communism (Lenin‚ Stalin/left wing) share a few things in common‚ 1) the rejection of liberal democracy as a substandard form of social organization‚ preferring powerful state and restricted individual
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12/12/12 NATIONALISM For more than five centuries it has been‚ and remains‚ the world’s “most powerful idea”. Nationalism is a key characteristic of traditional global politics. Despite its strength however‚ nationalism is not as dominant a political identity as it once was. Nationalism had existed throughout human civilization; it became a major political movement‚ in large part because of centuries of imperialism. As countries expanded their borders through warfare and colonialism‚ the map
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Fukuyama highlights two major challenges to liberalism which have occurred in the past century; communism and fascism. Fascism was no longer a challenge to liberalism because it had been defeated‚ not only on a material level through WWII but also‚ and more importantly‚ it had been defeated as an idea. The inherent and inescapable total failure now associated with fascism destroyed its appeal. The challenge from communism was far greater. Its criticism of capital and labour and the inequalities
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achieved good grades‚ and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1926 I seized total power as a dictator and ruled Italy as II Duce‚ which is “the leader” in Italian. And I am also known as one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. Fascism is a governmental system where a dictator has complete power‚ and I used to control all industries and I can send anybody I want to jail. Now‚ let me explain what happened to me back in the good old days‚ during WWI. There was something called
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and powerful Fascist state‚ a reputation he became keener to embrace as Hitler and the Nazi regime became more extreme in the late 1930s. However‚ Mussolini was arguably less successful in enforcing these ideas and convincing the Italian people fascism was the best thing for their country. Many of the policies were enforced at face value in order to impress foreign visitors‚ but few of such policies could truly be acknowledged as embedded in the Italian way of life. Mussolini’s domestic policies
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The current Italian constitution came into effect on 1st January 1948 and it was integral to Italy’s progression away from Fascism. After years of totalitarian rule under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini‚ the clear aspiration of constitutional change was to create a ‘viable democratic regime that would embrace all citizens’ (Pasquino‚ 2000: 71). The new constitution‚ therefore‚ paid particular attention to democratic practices and put in place necessary checks in order to guarantee them. This
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A Cool Million is a political novel‚ in the sense that it targets a political establishment which is corrupt and racist‚ bullying and philistine‚ but its strangeness left the political movement largely nonplussed. It is a novel of the end of the American dream. It is Candide recast for twentieth-century America‚ the destruction of an innocent by a system he simply cannot comprehend. Lem Pitkin is a simple‚ if not simple-minded‚ boy who is torn apart – literally so‚ he is systematically divested of
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political opponents. However‚ Mussolini’s strengths were also an important part in doing this. Mussolini was able to increase his power from 1922-1928 through his strategy‚ his ability to obtain Rule by Decree‚ the establishment of the Grand Council of Fascism and the fact that he had the support of powerful groups. He also used various violent tactics‚ which meant the Fascists had the power of the state behind them. However‚ Mussolini’s opponents were very weak. This is demonstrated in the failure of the
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