2.2 Revolutions Per Second
Last modified 06/07/2008
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We can restate our point: the modern transformation climaxes in the phase
of the Enlightenment, which overflows into the period of the French Revolution,
even as the Industrial Revolution, so-called, accompanies the passage into a new
form of civilization, one soon dominated by the action of capitalist agents, an
outcome intimated perhaps, but not legitimated, by the implications of our
transition. The point is merely that this realization is seeded in the field of
the macro but realizable only in the field of the micro, the reason for its
ambiguous character.
The point to see here is that while the thrust of the modern transition is indeed revolutionary we could not easily mimic its action in a revolutionary gesture. The breadth of the transformation is beyond the simple action of revolutionary elites. This does not mean that it is therefore illegitimate or impossible, only that the result must show an understanding of what real historical evolution is about, and that is hard indeed. Our transition produces an almost idyllic set of liberal breakthroughs, and then lapses into inaction after the Great Divide. The realization of that potential is left to the free field of micro action. Let's keep going...
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