>>14476477>>14476476>>14476474>>14476473>>14476471>>14476470>The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it may >eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently
reducing human beings and many other living organisms lo engineered products and mere
cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be
inevitable; There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as lo prevent it from
depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
>If (lie system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down
il had best break down sooner rather than later.
>We therefore advocate a revolution against ihe industrial system. This revolution may or may >not make use of violence: il may he sudden or il may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can'l predict any of that. Bui we do outline in n very general way the
measures that those who hale the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for
>a revolution against that form or society. This is not lo be a political revolution. Its object will be lo overt h ro w not governments but the economic and technological basis of Ihe present
>society. 