The Technological Mystique and Third World Options

Abstract

Western socialists have been inspired during the past 30 years by the emergence of third world liberation movements which offered new possibilities beyond the stale European-originated reality of the "socialist bloc." At the same time scientific and technological evolution has continued with fanfare and at a rapid pace. Countries trying to exercise new ideological options for development were led to evaluate this science which emanated from the old oppressors yet seemed essential to progress.

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