>Or is the central question to do with that self-institutionalising >dissenting movement? Human agency - the self-conscious drive to become the >subject of our history, if you like. I have no idea why these movements pop >up when they do - and why they don't when they don't. Neither the >hideousness nor the prosperity of the moment seems decisive, nor the >productive capacity of the base du jour, nor the presence or absence of >large proletariats. Such movements have yet to get very far in their own >lofty terms (an opinion I know not to be shared here), but they have left >their indelible mark on our superstructures, I think. How do you mean self-institutionalising? <...> >Maybe business's 'search for certainty' is going to have to create a system >not a million miles from socialist planning - maybe it's already >unconsciously doing it - maybe more along the lines of, say, a prosaic >Schumpetarian/Galbraithian vision at first - where the tyranny of the market >might be giving way to that of the unaccountable technocrat - but that >would, I think, ultimately be a moment necessitating merely a political >revolution rather than a social one. > >Because just maybe we're already undergoing that social revolution? "Because" -- ? Curious! puzzled, Joanna www.overlookhouse.com
