The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... extermination as a desirable way of establishing the dominance of their national organization and their ideology over rival systems . The enslavement or extermination of inferior groups or nations thus became the appointed duty of those ...
... extermination as a desirable way of establishing the dominance of their national organization and their ideology over rival systems . The enslavement or extermination of inferior groups or nations thus became the appointed duty of those ...
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... extermination , as a mere extension of war , without per- ceiving that the prospective increase of quantity was a far more frightful aberration than war itself . Paralyzed like a monkey in the coil of a python , the immediate post ...
... extermination , as a mere extension of war , without per- ceiving that the prospective increase of quantity was a far more frightful aberration than war itself . Paralyzed like a monkey in the coil of a python , the immediate post ...
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... Extermination , Assyrian model for , 251 ; compulsion to , 262 ; Darwinian accept- ance of , 387 ; Nazi plans for , 249 ; projects for , 362 ; Western man's , 9 Extermination bombing , military futility of , 252 Extermination camps ...
... Extermination , Assyrian model for , 251 ; compulsion to , 262 ; Darwinian accept- ance of , 387 ; Nazi plans for , 249 ; projects for , 362 ; Western man's , 9 Extermination bombing , military futility of , 252 Extermination camps ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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