What does the term commanding heights mean?
What does the term commanding heights mean? The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Lenin, who used the phrase "commanding heights" to refer to the segments of the economy that largely control or support the others, such as oil, railroads, banking and steel. What is the battle of ideas discussed in commanding heights? "The Battle of Ideas" tells the story of how, for half a century, the world moved toward more government control -- from the centrally planned economies of the communist world to the "mixed economies" of Europe and the developing world to the United States' regulated capitalism...