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Thomas Piketty opens his bestselling Capital in the Twenty-first Century with the spectre of South Africa's 2012 Marikana Massacre. He uses the example to illustrate the awful realities of contemporary inequality, the way these throw up "distributional conflict", and the threat that is posed to democratic societies. This article responds to Piketty's "telescope of historically grounded economics" with the "microscope of forensic sociology". What Piketty finds is a conflict over production of value, not just its distribution, and the way this is rooted in a capitalist crisis. Moreover, the massacre arose from a commonality of interests linking the victims' employer, a major mining corporation, and South Africa's social democratic government. Despite loss of lives, workers continued their struggle and won a significant victory. It is proposed that, in keeping with Piketty's account of historical reversals in inequality trends, and in contrast with his latest proposals, the creation of egalitarian society will involve massive social struggles, of which Marikana is a small yet important example.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE -- 1 Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1945 -- 2 The Lifelong Education of Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Some Reflections upon his Acquaintance Among Books -- PART II TOM PAINE AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS -- 3 The Moral Economics of Tom Paine -- 4 Thomas Paine "Prepare in Time an Asylum for Mankind" -- 5 A Note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology -- 6 Nature and Revolution in Paine's Common Sense -- 7 From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man -- 8 Paine and Burke: God, Nature and Politics -- 9 Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare -- 10 Paine's Agrarian Justice (1796) and the Secularisation of Natural Jurisprudence -- PART III PAINE AND REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY -- 11 Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigrés and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism -- 12 Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture -- 13 English Republicanism in the 1790s -- PART IV PAINE AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS -- 14 Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America -- 15 The American Revolution and the Transformation of English Republicanism -- 16 Religion and Radicalism: English Political Theory in the Age of Revolution -- 17 Paine, America, and the "Modernization" of Political Consciousness -- PART V LITERARY ANALYSES OF PAINE'S WRITINGS -- 18 The Commonalities of Common Sense -- 19 Style and Identification in Common Sense -- 20 Familial Politics: Thomas Paine and the Killing of the King, 1776 -- 21 Tom Paine and American Loneliness -- 22 Parasiting America: The Radical Function of Heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's Early Writings -- PART VI PAINE IN RADICAL HISTORY -- 23 Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative of American History

Innerhalb dieser bewährten Verlagsreihe eine überarbeitete und in den Literaturangaben aktualisierte Neuauflage der Einführung in Leben und Denken des politischen Philosophen Thomas Hobbes (1588-1673)Die Aussprüche:"Homo homini lupus est"(der Mensch ist dem Menschen ein Wolf) und "bellum omnium in omnes"(Krieg eines jeden gegen jeden) brachten den Philosophen Hobbes in Verruf - zu Unrecht, wie man nach der Lektüre dieser Studie konstatieren muß. Wie ambivalent Hobbes Charakter war, wie mehrdeutig seine politische Theorie und wie produktiv heute noch eine Auseinandersetzung mit ihr sein kann, zeigt diese Einführung sehr deutlich. Schon für Sek II

The article aims to identify as the main passions that run through the Hobbesian theoretical corpus. To this end, the exhibition will begin by analyzing the mechanism of the passions founded by the author. Next, it will be highlighted how unbridled passions make peaceful coexistence between individuals unfeasible, establishing a scenario in which conflicts are inevitable. Two passions will be analyzed in more detail: vainglory and fear. After emphasizing that the Hobbesian man tends naturally to his own benefit, to competition and to domination, representing a threat to the other, it will be pointed out how the State asserts itself as the necessary that aims to discipline like passions. This part of the argument will analyze as desirable passions for the maintenance of civil life, with emphasis on hope, the desire for comfort and delight, the desire for knowledge and the arts, as well as for fear and vainglory itself.

Headed envelope "Alvaro Obregón. Nogales, Sonora. Mexico," typed title "Gov. Campbell's speech at Obregón's barbacue," that contained handwritten manuscript notes and typed copies in English and Spanish of the speech given by Gen. Alvaro Obregón in Nogales, Sonora, during the celebration organized by the governmental authorities of both Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona, on the border, during the first political campaign. Speech given by the Governor of Arizona, Thomas Campbell, during the dinner hosted by the Chamber of Commerce of both Nogales in honor of Gen. Alvaro Obregón. Speech given by Mr. THomas Campbell, Governor of Arizona and Flavio Borquez during the same dinner and response of Gen. Obregón. / Sobre membretado "Alvaro Obregón. Nogales, Sonora. México", titulado a máquina "Gov. Campbell's speech at Obregon's barbacue", que contenía una minuta manuscrita y copias mecanográficas en inglés y español del discurso pronunciado por el Gral. Alvaro Obregón en Nogales, Son. durante el festejo organizado por las autoridades gubernamentales de ambos Nogales, Sonora y Arizona, en la línea fronteriza, durante la primera campaña política. Discurso pronunciado por el Gobernador de Arizona, Thomas Campbell, durante la comida que las Cámaras de Comercio de ambos Nogales ofrecieron al Gral. Alvaro Obregón. Discurso pronunciado por los Srs. Thomas Campbell, Gobernador de Arizona y Flavio Borquez durante la misma comida y respuesta del Gral. Obregón.

Thomas Hall sends a letter in English to General Plutarco Elías Calles telling him that his ideas seem good for managing the development of the Yaqui tribe and that he agrees with the measure of abolishing Jesuit colleges, which caused so much damage to said tribe and the whole country. / Carta en inglés que envía el señor Thomas Hall al general PEC diciéndole que le parecen buena su ideas para lograr el desarrollo del pueblo yaqui y que está de acuerdo con la medida de suprimir los colegios de jesuitas, que tanto daño han causado a dicho pueblo y a todo el país.

As skilled at architecture and inventing as he was at politics, Thomas Jefferson was a man of many talents who was invaluable to the founding of the United States. After loaning his expertise to writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson went on to serve as the third U.S. president, nearly doubling the size of the United States during his term. Jefferson?s extraordinary life and accomplishments are recounted in this engaging volume.

Obituaries for 1894, including ones for former Iowa Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, state legislator Thomas Mitchell, Iowa-born lawyer Thomas S. Wright, and others.