Universality and Cultural Spheres

Abstract

Models of social organization, like the ideological formulations which sustain them, have a universal scope (vocation), no doubt for the first time in history. This applies both to capitalist models and to those which concern the postcapitalist future, socialist or not. Clearly, there are today three consistent models which claim this universal validity: the North American, the Soviet, and the Chinese.

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