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Secularism : SecularSecularism (noun) is the belief that life can be lived, and the universe understood, with little or no reliance on, or reference to, supernatural powers, such as gods. In a secular society, religion (or lack thereof) is a private matter, playing little role in discussions in common public forums.In studies of religion, modern Western societies are generally recognized as secular; there is near-complete freedom of religion (you can believe in any religion or none at all, with little legal or social sanction), religion doesn't dictate political decisions (though the moral views originating in religious traditions remain important in political debate), and that religion isn't as important in most people's lives as it once was. See also agnosticism, atheism, rationalism and religion.
secular (adjective). In the meaning related to secularism above, it refers to things not religous or not related to the church. The adjective is also used as a technical term in ephemerides (astronomy), and then refers to long-term perturbations in the motion of planets, as opposed to periodic perturbations. see e.g. month. single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade. In one word, for
shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.html">exploitation.
The bourgeoisie.html">bourgeoisie.html">bourgeoisie.html">bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every.html">every.html">every occupation
converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the
veil,
brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists
indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can
pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has
of nations and crusades.
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising
production, and with them the whole relations of society.
was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all
production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions,
epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations,
opinions,
can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy
senses,
the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must
everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market
every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has
which it stood. All old-established national industries have
by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death
work up indigenous raw material.html">material, but raw material drawn from the
at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old
wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant
seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every
material, so also in intellectual.html">intellectual production. The intellectual
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