Ленинские принципы научной критики идеализма.

Кризис современного идеализма, Moscow, 1972.

by J. J. McDermott.

The Kremlin is very good at feigning such idealism.

Yet the rhetoric of idealism has not quite disappeared.

And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.

Can President Obama lead the way to a new era of social and political idealism?

What I would like to see is idealism decoupled from all constraints.

This program, like so many educational or cultural Israeli Palestinian partnerships, began in starry eyed idealism.

If you think about the history of Roman emperors and their images, you often see a combination of realism and idealism,

George W. Bush was the most recent idealist proponent of making democracy promotion the main priority for US foreign policy.

However, there were sharp ideological divisions between the five, ranging from the Parliamentary idealism of Ashley to the autocratic absolutism of Lauderdale.

We should, however, avoid idealism and seek a workable and manageable solution.

I was a student in the '60s, a time of social upheaval and questioning, and on a personal level, an awakening sense of idealism.

In fact, Americans do not need a new political party with Obama s reelection, voters have endorsed precisely that credo of pragmatic idealism.

But he was obsessed with the notion of expanding the executive powers of the president. The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

So this is when I ran out of my idealism and decided to quit my NGO job and actually study how the Internet could impede democratization.

This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.

But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.

But how much of that dignity and idealism could possibly have survived the ordeal of 27 years in prison, most of that time on Robben Island in the South Atlantic?

So it is no wonder that a left wing internationalist, such as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, has found a kind of home for his idealism in Nicolas Sarkozy s conservative government.

If you already have a culture of compassion and idealism and you let your people roam free, they will do the right thing in the most compassionate way.

When China fell to Mao s Communists, however, and North Korea got Chinese and Soviet backing for an invasion of the south, democratic idealism was stopped in its tracks. In Japan, former war criminals were released from prison, reds were purged, and right wing governments led by some of those same former war criminals got enthusiastic American backing.

When China fell to Mao s Communists, however, and North Korea got Chinese and Soviet backing for an invasion of the south, democratic idealism was stopped in its tracks.

That is what we must combat, with all the resources at our disposal. For the politics and economics of exclusivity are the bane of both pragmatism and idealism.

With the youthful idealism of a 26 year old, in 1987, I started my company and I called it Joie de Vivre, a very impractical name, because I actually was looking to create joy of life.