Telephone And Telegraph Were Better Means Of

It Is One Of The Ironies Of This Strange Century That The Most Lasting Results Of The October Revolution, Whose Object Was The Global Overthrow Of Capitalism, Was To Save Its Antagonist, Both In War And In Peace - That Is To Say, By Providing It With The Incentive, Fear, To Reform Itself After The Second World War, And, By Establishing The Popularity Of Economic Planning, Furnishing It With Some Of The Procedures For Its Reform

Impotence Therefore Faces Both Those Who Believe In What Amounts To A Pure, Stateless, Market Capitalism, A Sort Of International Bourgeois Anarchism, And Those Who Believe In A Planned Socialism Uncontaminated By Private Profit-seeking. Both Are Bankrupt. The Future, Like The Present And The Past, Belongs To Mixed Economies In Which Public And Private Are Braided Together In One Way Or Another. But How? That Is The Problem For Everybody Today, But Especially For People On The Left.

Utopianism Is Probably A Necessary Social Device For Generating The Superhuman Efforts Without Which No Major Revolution Is Achieved.

The Most Lasting And Universal Consequence Of The French Revolution Is The Metric System

There Is Not Much That Even The Most Socially Responsible Scientists Can Do As Individuals, Or Even As A Group, About The Social Consequences Of Their Activities.