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The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Prospects of Industrial Civilization provides a rare glimpse
into areas of Russell's political thought which are often ignored.
Written with Dora Black (who became Russell's second wife) on a
trip to China in 1920, it is revealing both as a period piece and
as a book for our times. Russell criticises his own age, and
demonstrates how humanity perpetually struggles against the
centralising forces of industrialism and nationalism.
He views industrialism as a threat to human freedom, as it creates
large populations which have to be subject to controls and he
likens Bolshevik Russia to Cromwell's England, asserting that both
were dictatorships designed to force an essentially feudal society
to adopt industrialism. He sees industrialism and nationalism as
fundamentally linked and proposes one government for the whole
world as a solution.
Russell is not blind to the positive side of industrialism;
without machines an economy of subsistence would be the best for
which society could hope, but argues that the global village and
prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results.
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