A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.