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In contrast, latency is the possible content of the future that is around us. Again, Bloch uses a typically Marxist line of thinking here: the proletariat are a future revolutionary class, latent in the present and finding expression in the class struggle. These latencies of the present meet the objective real possible conditions of history and it is this that forms the dialectical engine that drives history itself forward.
A Primer on Utopian Philosophy
Jonathan Greenaway
With the women and not the men in control, points out N. Kannammal, a leading Arivoli activist, family spending patterns change. ‘Most of the money is spent on the families, not on arrack. The women have proved much better at fighting poverty.’
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
P Sainath
Without observable conflict (overt or covert) one must assume ‘consensus’ to be ‘genuine’. But __why should one exclude the possibility that power may be at work in such a way as to secure consent and thus prevent conflict from arising?__
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
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