The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
So far in our accounting of the powers, institutions, dispositions,
types and classes to which the Open Conspiracy will run counter, we
have surveyed only such territory in the domain of the future world
commonweal as is represented by the complex, progressive, highly
industrialised communities, based on a preceding landlord-soldier,
tenant, town-merchant and tradesman system, of the Atlantic type.
These communities have developed farthest in the direction of
mechanicalisation and they are so much more efficient and powerful
that they now dominate the rest of the world. India, China, Russia,
Africa present _mélanges_ of social systems, thrown together,
outpaced, overstrained, shattered, invaded, exploited and more or less
subjugated by the finance, machinery and political aggressions of the
Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean civilisation. In many ways they have
an air of assimilating themselves to that civilisation, evolving modern
types and classes and abandoning much of their distinctive traditions.
But what they take from the West is mainly the new developments, the
material achievements, rather than social and political achievements
that, empowered by modern inventions, have won their way to world
predominance. They may imitate European nationalism to a certain
extent; for them it becomes a convenient form of self-assertion
against the pressure of a realised practical, social and political
inferiority; but the degree to which they will or can take over the
social assumptions and habits of the long-established European-American
hierarchy is probably very restricted. Their nationalism will remain
largely indigenous; the social traditions to which they will try to
make the new material forces subservient will be traditions of an
Oriental life widely different from the original life of Europe. They
will have their own resistances to the Open Conspiracy, therefore,
but they will be different resistances from those we have hitherto
considered. The automobile and the wireless set, the harvester and
steel construction building, will come to the jungle raja and the head
hunter, the Brahmin and the Indian peasant with a parallel and yet
dissimilar message to the one they brought the British land-owner or
the corn and cattle farmers of the Argentine and the Middle West. Also
they may be expected to evoke dissimilar reactions.
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