A Short History of the Future
Dec. 28th, 2002 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI've done it.
I've bought A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wager.
Volume 2 of the Journal of World Systems research deals substantially with Wagar's perspectives on the future organization of world-system. Wagar rejects any possibility of reform or democratization of the capitalist world-system, favouring instead a transition to "[a sec]ular socialist humanism[, a] rational faith in democracy, civil liberties, public stewardship of capital, and the unity and common destiny of humankind [that] must lead us out of the cultural anarchy and reaction of the now-expiring 20th century to a new commonsense global republic of working men and women." A Short History of the Future appears to be Wagar's attempt to describe this secular socialist humanism.
I'll probably have to agree with Sanderson that Wagar's vision of a decentralized socialist future is self-contradictory, since:
Still, it seems to be a book worth the acquisition (and the price, some 29.50 Canadian dollars).
I've bought A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wager.
Volume 2 of the Journal of World Systems research deals substantially with Wagar's perspectives on the future organization of world-system. Wagar rejects any possibility of reform or democratization of the capitalist world-system, favouring instead a transition to "[a sec]ular socialist humanism[, a] rational faith in democracy, civil liberties, public stewardship of capital, and the unity and common destiny of humankind [that] must lead us out of the cultural anarchy and reaction of the now-expiring 20th century to a new commonsense global republic of working men and women." A Short History of the Future appears to be Wagar's attempt to describe this secular socialist humanism.
I'll probably have to agree with Sanderson that Wagar's vision of a decentralized socialist future is self-contradictory, since:
"a highly decentralized world future in which people live in small political communities notable for their sharp cultural, economic, and political differences [could] lead us right back toward the kind of divisiveness he wants to avoid, and, moreover, [pave the way] for a resumption of capitalism and of the evolutionary process whereby many small political units eventually become one big one".
Still, it seems to be a book worth the acquisition (and the price, some 29.50 Canadian dollars).
