Political change becomes social change only through redirecting technology
Evidence
The technological transformation is at the same time political transformation, but the political change would turn into qualitative social change only to the degree to which it would alter the direction of technical progress—that is, develop a new technology. For the established technology has become an instrument of destructive politics. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 801
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Communist states replaced political coercion with technological domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 158; Nationalization alone cannot alter technology’s embodied rationality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 164; Technology carries no inherent politics; usage determines its effects (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Colonized peoples accept technology once it serves their own revolution
#exemplifies(0.85) - Technology carries no inherent politics; usage determines its effects
#complicates(0.80) - Natural forces become historical only through social creation and use
#expands(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1648 - Social change unfolds across escalating levels of relations of force
#complicates(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 767