Daniele Benzi

Things had to change in a hurry. But socialism requires imagination and time. It cannot be made in a hurry. To create socialism in a hurry without mass support, and institutions that can channel this support, led many states to disaster. […] The intentions of the leadership, by all accounts, were not malevolent. Yet its modernist dream-to administer nature and society, and build vast industrial monuments without either a democratic governance structure or a mobilized population-led to the worst excesses of commandism and bureaucratism.

Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations

Non ricordo più dove. Ma sono quasi sicuro che da qualche parte Giovanni Arrighi abbia scritto, probabilmente citando o parafrasando Braudel, che per conoscere ciò che è nuovo bisogna sapere riconoscere, anzitutto, quello che non lo è. Prosegui la lettura »