The Outliers - by Joseph Heath - In Due Course
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Torn between two unattractive models of human civilization
One of the reasons that progressive social change is so difficult to achieve is that no one knows how society works. It’s like we’re tinkering around with a piece of alien technology whose internal mechanisms we do not understand – we can only observe the inputs and outputs. Indeed, one of the enduring attractions of Marx’s work was his claim to have articulated the basic laws of historical development, thereby putting socialism on a “scientific” footing. No more shooting in the dark, the way that previous “utopian” socialists had been doing. By providing a clear articulation of the…
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