El futuro llegó, hace rato...
El Ministerio de Defensa Británico hace un informe con el "contexto estratégico futuro", en dónde postulan en dónde se encontrará el mundo en unos 30 años. Entre anticipos tecnológicos y armamentísticos, no se privan de hacer futurología política, en dónde como verán y como de alguna manera viene adelantando Ballard, se hipotetiza sobre el futuro de la lucha de clases en el sentido del protagonismo a asumir por las clases medias, dada la fuerte desigualdad económica, que distancia a las mismas enormemente de las pequeñas clases altas ultra-ricas:
Marxism
"The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx," says the report. The thesis is based on a growing gap between the middle classes and the super-rich on one hand and an urban under-class threatening social order: "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest". Marxism could also be revived, it says, because of global inequality. An increased trend towards moral relativism and pragmatic values will encourage people to seek the "sanctuary provided by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism".
Artículo completo acá en el Guardian
Marxism
"The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx," says the report. The thesis is based on a growing gap between the middle classes and the super-rich on one hand and an urban under-class threatening social order: "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest". Marxism could also be revived, it says, because of global inequality. An increased trend towards moral relativism and pragmatic values will encourage people to seek the "sanctuary provided by more rigid belief systems, including religious orthodoxy and doctrinaire political ideologies, such as popularism and Marxism".
Artículo completo acá en el Guardian
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