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All I'm saying is that they don't support central planning or a one-party state.
What do they want to replace corporations with? Worker cooperatives? Then they're market socialists, unless they don't want sorts of competition and all and want the co-ops to officially be union-controlled; then they're syndicalists. Community-controlled groups? Then they're some sort of non-communist, non-market socialists. (if they would want to abolish the state, then they'd be communists of the anarchist variety, but they don't seem to be interested in abolishing the state.)
Basically, they want to take the basic framework of capitalism, then remove corporations and introduce a comprehensive welfare state. They want to oversee an even, regulated marketplace composed of small businesses and worker-owned factories.
I can try. I'll fool around to bit to see what it takes.
You have OS X, right? Open them up in Preview and then Tools > Adjust Size to resize them.
BUT HOW DEEP DOES THIS RABBIT HOLE REALLY GO
Alice Roberts was a popular authoress of the San Francisco school. She never quite seemed to fit in with the movements she took part in, however; her background didn't lend itself to the higher-society circles she often found herself in- and her books reflected her uneasiness, often featuring characters with dramatically-changing social contexts.
She got her start in the San Francisco pulp rags, and her consistent narrative voice and attention to detail made her quickly stand out, and she began getting regular features. Shortly thereafter, she transitioned to novel writing, and almost immediately branched out into new, more experimental works that often made the more conservative East Coast reviewers trepidatious.
San Francisco, on the other hand, ate it up. Her books were wildly popular amongst the West Coast set, and even achieved mild success around the rest of the Pacific Rim. While some critics derided her tendency to focus on exceptionally imbalanced relationships and her willingness to write for a more pedestrian audience, her books were very popular across a broad demographic spectrum.
(Ignore the dates on the following infoboxes and believe the dates in the text; there is a reason and a context, I assure you, but for now, you'll have to live with the slight continuity error between them. There are bigger things in play, and these boxes are presented for character-building, not strict continuity adherence.)
Mammon (2007) was widely regarded as one of Roberts's best works. It followed a young orphan girl, hired as a maid to a wealthy family, her struggles to adjust to a new life, and the relationships she developed there.
It was one of the only books in her career that received positive reviews on both coasts- while New York reviews were somewhat critical of her willingness to discuss openly sexual themes, they did respect the novel's exploration of young adulthood and societal gaps.
Asmodeus (2014) wasn't the first Roberts book to make decent sales overseas, but was the first to truly become a sensation outside North America. Brazilian actress Rita Farrar, popular in the United States for her recent television and film work, worked closely with Roberts during the novel's creation, and while Farrar insisted it was entirely Roberts's work, in Brazil the novel was sold as a joint work to capitalize on Farrar's fame. Additionally, Farrar leveraged her own resources to ensure swift production of a film version, with herself in the lead role.
Asmodeus told the story of a woman with a supernatural ability to manipulate certain desires, but only under very specific circumstances. While its plot was not complex, it was intentionally so; the main focus of both the book and movie was a character study- not just of the woman, but of the space she inhabited- the spectacular city of Rio de Janiero.
The film, which came out in January 2015, was an unexpected hit at the box office, though many chalked this up to outside factors including morbid curiosity, as the box office run was extended until late in the year due to unexpectedly large theater returns in July and August.
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Ooh, thanks.
I wasn't going to post anymore until I saw this post. Nothing particularly high-minded. Basically, a Bourbon cadet successfully pulls a Maximilian in Uruguay during all the Revolutions against Spain, and this quickly devolves into a France/Greece-esque situation where the monarchy is overthrown and re-established whenever the populace gets bored of the other lot. There's a bit of a butterfly net, but borders are slightly different wars go slightly differently and that sort of thing.
Kings over the Water
The Second Republic of Cisplatina
After the flight of King Luis II, there was a power vacuum at the top - a few desultory Blanco power-plays were made, signifying nothing, but the all-powerful Cisplatinan Navy, flushed with success at having gotten rid of the King, would accept no leaders who were not of the Colorado party - naturally, leadership fell on the Minister of War, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, made Conde de Santa Teresa by Luis II in an attempt to co-opt Colorado leaders into his fragile government. Batlle and his allies promulgated a new Constitution in which power was shared by a five-man Directory, like in Revolutionary France. Ostensibly, the only special power of the Premier Director over the others was to Chair their frequent meetings, but in practice, Lorenzo Batlle dictated not only the Agenda but all business of government.
Keen to unite the people behind the new regime, the Directory joined in the Paraguayan War from which Luis II had remained aloof. The Paraguayan caudillo, Isidoro Yegros (grandson of the first leader of Paraguay) had grown too big for his boots, and imprisoned Rioplatensian and Brazilian traders on trumped up charges before taking all land and wealth into the direct ownership of the state. His personal austere charisma led to a situation where the entire population of Paraguay would follow Yegros anywhere: and as it turned out, they did so. In 1864, Brazil and Rio de la Plata combined forces to oust Yegros and install a more amenable dictator in Asuncion, and by the time Yegros and his final band of die-hards were klled in a shoot-out in 1870, three quarters of the Paraguayan population was dead from violence, starvation or disease. After joining the war in 1868, Cisplatina claimed the region of Entre Rios (taken by Paraguay decades earlier) but they had not pacified it by the time the other members of the Alliance went home, so the guerilla warfare continued until 1879, causing disillusionment in Cisplatina.
Political parties were technically illegal, which meant in practice that the Blanco party was illegal while the Colorados were so dominant that they did't even need to define themselves with a name. While they worked for social and especially economic progress, they were prone to corruption and clientelism to an extent that would be impossible to delve into here. Suffice to say that Lorenzo Batlle created a powerful faction around his family, and promoted them to higher and higher positions, to the extent that every single Premier Director for the entire decade was a member of the founder's extended family. Naturally, many on both the liberal and Blanco wings were apprehensive about these over-mighty leaders, but the general mass of the population were kept quiet with flashy bread and circuses (or at least, the urban population - it is hard to build barricades on a cattle-farm, so those outside Montevideo were usually ignored). Public works projects such as the Atlantic Railway (from Florianopolis in Brazil to Viedma on the southern border of Rio de la Plata) and the Altar of the Fatherland in central Montevideo formed a backdrop to the near-constant micro-managed celebrations. From 1933 onwards, the long-planned Football World Cup was held in Cisplatina every four years except in wartime - originally, it was going to be held by Cisplatina the first time and by the winner of the previous one afterwards, but after Cisplatina won the first three Cups, nobody else could be bothered to build the necessary stadia. The quality of Cisplatinan football dropped off, and they have only won the Cup six times to date.
The younger generations of the Batlle family were less talented than their forbears, and were inexpert at flirting with the Soviet Union just enough that the USA would pump money in their direction. As such, the 1950s saw a soveriegn debt crisis to the extent that Jorge Batlle was forced to name a moderate Blanco, Martin Echegoyen, as Chairman of the Chamber. Unable to kickstart the economy to cover the interest on their loans, it was decided by all concerned that Echegoyen would stage a monarchist 'coup' and the leading Colorados would flee to Barbados with the remainder of the Treasury. With a new regime, the debt could be dismissed as 'Odious Debt' and Cisplatina could go on as normal, except with a much lower credit rating.
83 people died in the Blanco 'Revolution'.
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I'm working on an iPad, using Photoshop Touch to assemble and resize the infoboxes.
I have no idea what this means exactly but I'm pretty sure it's lewd
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That was in between Carlota and Luis II (1852-1860) but it was so similar to the 2nd Republic one that I didn't post it
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