Another early run down to the river, whilst the roads are still quiet and the air still fresh(ish) even in the heart of the city.
One of the enduring principles of Hegelian and Marxist political theories has been the dialectic model of social progress. Society comprises innate contradictions and gradual changes, leading to crises & failures through which one side or another then dominates, and the whole advances (or recedes) in a helical pattern.
In an outstandingly good collection of short essays on the BBC today, several people seek to answer the question of whether Western capitalism is now failing in the same way that communism collapsed 20 years ago. Tellingly, the economist and banking contributors say "oh no it isn't", but two, Chandran Nair, founder of Global Institute for Tomorrow and Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey (and the clue is in the job titles) are rather more convincingly saying "oh yes it is".
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