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Corporate State. Mussolini economic system. Capitalist elements in state controlled economy.
Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.
Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.
Dagon. Semite/Philistine fertility god.
Dali, Salvador. 1904-89. Spanish Surrealist painter of nightmare visions. Persistence of Memory. Crucifixion.
Dana, Charles. 1819-97. US journalist, editor. Attacked corruption.
D’Annunzio, Gabriele. 1863-1938. Italian nationalist writer. Siezed Fiume 1919. Revived Roman salute.
Dante Alighieri. 1265-1321. Italian moralist poet. First vernacular. Banquet 1306. Divine Comedy 1321, printed 1472.
Darwin, Charles. 1809-1882. English Naturalist. His Theory of Evolution supported Materialism. Origin of Species by Natural Selection 1859. Descent of Man 1871.
Daumier, Honore. 1808-79. French Realist painter and engraver. Political caricaturist.
David. King of Isreal 1015-c962BC. Killed Goliath, defeated Philistines. Conquered Jerusalem. United Israel. Author of psalms.
De La Mare, Walter. 1873-1956. English children’s poet, novelist.
Debs, Eugene. 1855-1926. US socialist leader. Led Pullman Strike 1894.
Delescluze, Charles. 1809-71. French journalist. Led 1871 Commune.
Democratic Centralists. 1919-27. Russian Communists opposed to authoritarianism and bureaucracy.
Descartes, René. 1596-1650. French Rationalist philosopher, physician, mathematician. Cartesian coordinates. Discourse on Method 1637. “Cogito ergo sum”-I think, therefore I am. Analytical Geometry 1636. Meditations 1641. Principia Philosophica 1645.
Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.
Dialectical Materialism. Exploited workers...capital concentration...socialist revolution...dictatorship of proletariat...elimination of class...Communism. Hegel. Marx. Engels. Lenin.
Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.
Doctrinaires. 1815-30. French Royalist writers.
Dollfuss, Engelbert. 1892-1934. Fascist Austrian Chancellor 1932-. Attacked Socialist demonstration led to 5 day civil war. Assassinated by Nazis.
Don Quixote. Cervantes’ idealist 16C hero who attacks sheep and tilts at windmills.
Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.
Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.
Eakins, Thomas. 1844-1916. US Realist painter. Clinic of Dr. Gross 1875.