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v. t. e. The Prager University Foundation, known as PragerU, is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit advocacy group and media organization that creates content promoting conservative and capitalist viewpoints on various political, economic, and sociological topics. It was co-founded in 2009 by Allen Estrin and talk show host Dennis Prager.
The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and most Warsaw Pact members invaded ...
Dennis Mark Prager (/ ˈ p r eɪ ɡ ər /; born August 2, 1948) [1] is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show. In 2009, he co-founded PragerU, which primarily creates five-minute videos from an American conservative perspective, among other ...
Died. April 9, 2019. (2019-04-09) (aged 86) Paul Hollander (/ ˈhɒləndər /; 3 October 1932 [1] – 9 April 2019) [2] was a Hungarian-born political sociologist, communist-studies scholar, and non-fiction author. He is known for his criticisms of communism and left-wing politics in general. [3]
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems [ 1 ] characterised by social ownership of the means of production, [ 2 ] as opposed to private ownership. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. American historian and socialist thinker (1922–2010) Howard Zinn Zinn in 2009 Born (1922-08-24) August 24, 1922 New York City, New York, U.S. Died January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27) (aged 87) Santa Monica, California, U.S. Education New York University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD ...
Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') 1 2 is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, [ 1 ] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to ...
Modern communism is a form of revolutionary socialism based on support for the communist society described the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, known as Marxism. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Offshoots of Marxism include Leninism , Marxism–Leninism (which was distinct from both of its eponymous ideologies), Maoism , Eurocommunism ...