The things I as a Jew-ish leftie love (yes, love) about the place – its intellectualism, its remaining socialist ethic, the directness of its people and so on – are the very things other, more Jewish Jews, hate.
This vaguely socialist ethic — observed as well at Matt Umanov's on Bleecker Street, Manny's (actually owned by the same company, which keeps both stores) on 48th Street and some other music stores — has been the rule at Sam Ash since I began shopping there in the early '70s.
By resurrecting and celebrating the life and football times of Bill Shankly, Peace suggests that Shankly's kind of socialist work ethic bred success, and created in Liverpool FC a communal spirit that at times transcended the selfishness of the times that inevitably led to the rise of Margaret Thatcher.
These protests were in accordance with the socialist discourse and survival ethics before the reform, and mainly took the form of leapfrog petitions and sit-down protests.
Relatedly, Munger links to a really thought-provoking essay by the democratic socialist philosopher Michael Walzer on the ethics of competition -- it is one of the best critiques of market I've ever read, partly because it is so subtle and intelligent.
I attended a scientific meeting with him in Czechoslovakia, during the 1968 Prague spring, where he surprised his hosts at a social evening by singing a socialist ditty extolling the work ethic.
Medical ethics in Central and Eastern Europe during the socialist period is a matter of near total ignorance among scholars.
Disagreement between Dühring and Marxian socialists was also reflected in Dühring's "ethics of sympathy," by which he asserted that the Marxist dichotomy between capitalist and proletariat was unnecessary.
Understanding the unique conditions of medical ethics in East Germany and the other socialist states in that period will require incorporating expertise from cultural history, law, and the social sciences, as well as dogged archival work.
Even as Barbara plots her escape and enjoys the West German cigarettes her boyfriend brings — serious transgressions against the state — her work ethic expresses her belief in the socialist experiment.
