Up to now, modernization has always been conceived of, in contrast
to the worlds of tradition and religion, as a liberation from the
constraints of nature. What happens, however, if industrial society
becomes a 'tradition' to itself? What if its own necessities,
functional principles and fundamental concepts are undermined,
broken up and demystified with the same ruthlessness as were the
supposedly eternal truths of earlier epochs?
These questions are the focus of Ulrich Beck's Democracy without
Enemies. The conflict of the future, he argues, will no longer be
between East and West, between communism and capitalism, but
between the countries, regions and groups involved in primary
modernization and those that are attempting to relativize and
reform the project of modernity self-critically, based on their
experience of it. The conflict of the future will be between the
two modernities which will battle over the compatibility of
survival and human rights for all citizens of the earth.
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