The Last Man's Culture--Revisited

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Miloš Dokulil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Third World ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
New Codes ◽  
The Third World

At the end of the second millennium, we seem to be somewhat nervous agairn. Twentieth-century scientific developments have opened up fascinating new fields of study both in the micro- and macrocosmos. Yet none of the new codes, paradigms, and ideologies appear to bring us nearer to some new and generally shared creed. Life without work for many, not only in the Third World, the successful integration of Europe, armed conflicts on local battlefields, as well as superficialities on TV screens, are our near-to-be contemporaneity. The seeming unlimited technical possibilities of artificial intelligence, the relativtatim of civic values, and a cartoon-like culture portend risks for the fiiture. Yet, while secular and lacking a binding sense of responsibility, postmodem society epitomizes spiritual hunger. Nurtured by good family traditions, the spiritual quest promises an open-ended, post-Godotian future.

Pluralist Democracy and the Third World

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Raymond D. Gastil
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Third World ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

In a century of unexampled economic and technological progress, with the most educated and sophisticated population ever known, much of the world still writhes under the torture, brutality, and forced labor exacted by tyrants of both Right and Left. In more than half the world's nations governments are masters and people are subjects, and to seriously criticize the masters is dangerous to both life and limb. This world needs a great many things, including a more adequate distribution of food, energy, and medical care, but surely a high priority must be given to the eradication of tyranny. The opinion leaders of the democracies must strive as dedicatedly to, end public enslavement in the twentieth century as their predecessors strove to end private enslavement in the nineteenth.

Agreement between the European Economic Community and the International Committee

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (110) ◽  
pp. 272-272
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

The ICRC has just concluded an agreement with representatives of the European Economic Community (EEC) at Brussels, under which the member countries will make available to the ICRC agricultural surpluses and other goods to the value of 24 million Swiss francs to be used to carry out the tasks of the International Committee (and the League of Red Cross Societies as necessary) in those countries of the Third World stricken by armed conflicts or famine.

scholarly journals The Peasants as a Revolutionary Class: An Early Latin American View

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry E. Vanden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Foundation Stone

We do not regard Marx's theory as something completed and inviolable; on the contrary, we are convinced that it has only laid the foundation stone of the science which socialists must develop in all directions if they wish to keep pace with life.V. I. Lenin (Our Program)The peasant is one of the least understood and most abused actors on the modern political stage. He is maligned for his political passivity and distrust of national political movements. Yet, most of the great twentieth-century revolutions in the Third World have, according to most scholars, been peasant based (Landsberger, 1973: ix; Wolf, 1969). In Latin America the peasant was once pictured as the archetypical parochial who was more suited for siestas under his sombrero than serious political activity. Stereotypes aside, the region has been no exception to the growing tendency of peasants to become involved in major revolutionary processes.

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