Who can change the world today ?
Is there a new agent of historical change ? Could it be the commoners ? But if so: allied to who ?
This article is a meditation on ‘who can change history’, in other words what social force can function as an ‘agent’ of change, in time of transition which seems rife with ‘morbid symptoms’ ?
One of the most famous ‘contemporary’ answers to this question was of course Marxism, and its idea of the proletariat, the global brotherhood/sisterhood of working…
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