I SEE US FREE, THEREFORE, TO RETURN TO SOME OF THE MOST SURE AND CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION AND TRADITIONAL VIRTUE--THAT AVARICE IS A VICE, THAT THE EXACTION OF USURY IS A MISDEMEANOUR, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY IS DETESTABLE, THAT THOSE WALK MOST TRULY IN THE PATHS OF VIRTUE AND SANE WISDOM WHO TAKE LEAST THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW. WE SHALL ONCE MORE VALUE ENDS ABOVE MEANS AND PREFER THE GOOD TO THE USEFUL. WE SHALL HONOUR THOSE WHO CAN TEACH US HOW TO PLUCK THE HOUR AND THE DAY VIRTUOUSLY AND WELL, THE DELIGHTFUL PEOPLE WHO ARE CAPABLE OF TAKING DIRECT ENJOYMENT IN THINGS, THE LILIES OF THE FIELD WHO TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN.

BUT BEWARE! THE TIME FOR ALL THIS IS NOT YET. FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS WE MUST PRETEND TO OURSELVES AND TO EVERY ONE THAT FAIR IS FOUL AND FOUL IS FAIR; FOR FOUL IS USEFUL AND FAIR IS NOT. AVARICE AND USURY AND PRECAUTION MUST BE OUR GODS FOR A LITTLE LONGER STILL. FOR ONLY THEY CAN LEAD US OUT OF THE TUNNEL OF ECONOMIC NECESSITY INTO DAYLIGHT.*

*IBID., PP. 371-2

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THERE IS A BASIC, LONG-TERM, MULTIFOLD TREND TOWARDS:

1. INCREASINGLY SENSATE (EMPIRICAL, THIS-WORLDLY, SECULAR, HUMANISTIC, PRAGMATIC, UTILITARIAN, CONTRACTUAL, EPICUREAN OR HEDONISTIC, ETC.) CULTURES

2. BOURGEOIS, BUREAUCRATIC, "MERITOCRATIC," DEMOCRATIC (AND NATIONALISTIC?) ELITES

3. ACCUMULATION OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

4. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CHANGE, ESPECIALLY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION

5. WORLD-WIDE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND MODERNIZATION

6. INCREASING AFFLUENCE AND (RECENTLY) LEISURE

7. POPULATION GROWTH

8. URBANIZATION AND (SOON) THE GROWTH OF MEGALOPOLISES

9. DECREASING IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY (AND RECENTLY) SECONDARY OCCUPATIONS

10. LITERACY AND EDUCATION

11. INCREASING CAPABILITY FOR MASS DESTRUCTION

12. INCREASING TEMPO OF CHANGE

13. INCREASING UNIVERSALITY OF THE MULTIFOLD TREND

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The following is taken from _the Communist Manifesto_. While Marx undoubtably exaggerated the impact of the bourgeoisie on Western society, the excerpt is an almost reasonable discussion of what the West has done to the underdeveloped nations. What is perhaps more important, it is an accurate description of what many in the third world may feel.

"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitied lessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment". It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom-- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigor in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exodus of nations and crusades.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all newly-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

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every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn
from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.
All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are
daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose
introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized
nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material,
but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose pro-
ducts are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the
globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the productions of the
country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the pro-
ducts of distant lands and climes. In place of the old focal and
national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every
direction, universal interdependence of nations. And as in material,
so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of
individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness
and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the
numerous national and local literatures there arises a world-literature.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of
production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws
all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap
prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters
down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely
obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations,
on pain of extinction to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it
compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst,
i.e. to become bourgeois themselves. In a word, it creates a world
after its own image.

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the
towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the
urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a
considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.
Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has
made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized
ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the
West.

The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scatter-
ed state of the population, of the means of production, and of prop-
erty. It has agglomerated population, centralized means of production,
and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence
of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely
connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and
systems of taxation, became lumped together in one nation, with one
government, one code of laws, one national class-interest, one frontier
and one customs-tariff.

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years,
has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than
have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's
forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agri-
culture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of
whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole
populations conjured out of the ground--what earlier century had even
a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of
social labor? "

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THE BLACK MUSLIMS - A SCHISMATIC PHILOSOPHY

1. MARRY THEIR GIRL FRIENDS

2. GIVE UP ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND PORK

3. WORK 8 HOURS/DAY--6 DAYS/WEEK

4. SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES

5. ARE STRONG (EVEN DOMINEERING) FATHER FIGURES

6. DRESS NEATLY AND CONVENTIONALLY

7. SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL

8. MAINTAIN THEIR DIGNITY AND SELF-RESPECT

9. SAVE THEIR MONEY

10. OFTEN BECOME SMALL ENTREPRENEURS

11. HATE WHITES AND PREACH APARTHEID AND VIOLENCE

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10. LITERACY AND EDUCATION