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or normative rethinking on basie ar- rangements and institutional structures. As the fuller import of the world crisis has not been properly received, such defensive responses are bound to be not only partial and unsatisfactory but on certain dimensions, counter-productive. It is to this ga.p between something truly positive happening and its failure to measure up as fully as the situation is demandingthat I shall now turn. We still continue to live in a world in large parts of which the State is conceived as a coercive apparatus and is weighing down on large sections of the people, not infrequently in close eol- laboration with (and often led by) interests emanating from transnational capitalism and its technocratic logic. Increasingly, in many parts of the world, security is conceived not just through the corrosive idea of a national security state but the far more oppressive eon- ception which limits security to the security of elites and the ruling coteries, marshalling for that purpose military and paramilitary forces. There continues to be in operation a thriving arms bazaar, producing both for the security of narrow elites against their popula- tions and for maintaining regimes of regional hegemony and brutalized con- trol, alongside of course the still eon- tinuing and ever more sophisticated weapons technologies which are then fed to maintain the tempo of n~ilitariza- tion within and across nation-states, not to mention the still persisting interest (all the way from Universities to com- puter conglomerates) in adventures likes the SDI. Nor has there been any great change in the persisting hold of transnational techno-capitalism, the growing power of transnational financial superstructure (the World Bank, the IMF, the large commercial money markets) or the growing hold domestically of the teehno- managers who are everywhere replacing institutional structures of representative and bureaucratic types based on mini- mum norms of accountability, participa- tion and reciprocity. There is, if any- thing growing highhandedness and repression on the pan of the ruling clues in their approach to grassroots movements aimed at radical reconstruc- tion of governance and of the State. 'I'he poor are everywhere getting mar- ginalized and so are the women, the ethnics, the forest people and above all the indigenous cultures keen on preserv- ing their identity, their ecosystems and their ancestral meaning systems. In fact, there are reasons to think that each of these tendencies may get accentuated in an era of accon~mockition between major powers and within the states systems as a whole which is likely to ask for greater integration of states and economies and cultural orders - as well as alternative scientific and technological models - into a large integrated (in- terdependent?) 'world order'. For all the democratic and human rights euphoria presently being witnessed from the spokesmen of governments, there still persists a basic fear of the people and thcir diverse cultural, ecologiccil and ethnic assertions. It is a fear that may even grow as the new climate of de- escalation and the new language of accommodation :it the global level spurs
the viirious grassroots movements towards a greater surge forward, par- ticularly of the hitherto socially and ccoiiom~cally deprived and oppressed strata oi the human community. I'hcre seems 10 be no parantee that nioderation in inter-state and inter- governmental relations, following a decline in the politics of confrontation at that level, will necessarily produce a greater commitn~ent to equity, social diversity and ecological sust:iinability or of real compassion and care for the downtrodcten. Similarly thee is little parantcc ;ig;iinst the persistence of ill- advised projects of industrialisation based on hazardous technologies, pro- ducingtnot just more Chcrnobyls and l3hop;il.s (we very nearly escaped one more during the earthquake in Amen- :I) but the less noticed and, in their total ciTeet, more pernicious consequen- ces of the leaks and explosions caused by nuclc:ir and other devices used for so called 'peaceful purposes'. Again in fact there is reason to suspect that as the slogan 'disarmament to develop- ment' ciitchcs on and :IS there is more ;ind more uncriticiil acceptance of the Western model of economic develop- ment, many of these features of tcch- nolosical ciitchinpp may in fad grow. Indeed, one result of both glasnost and peivitroiki~ could well be a decline in criticism of exploitive models of capitalism based (in mountingextraction of strategic r:iw materials and natural resources. Two important quotes, one from the main thesis of the Report of the Central Comn~ittee oS the USSR CP on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the October Revolution, and the other from Perestroika, will be in order at this stage: For all the profound contriidictions of the contemporary world, for all the radical differences amongthe countries that comprise it, it is inter-related, inter-dependent and integral. The reasons for this include the internationalization of world economic tics, the comprehensive scope of the scientific and technological revolution, the essentially novel role played by the mass media, the state of earth's resources, the common environment danger, and the crying social problems of the developing world which affects us all. The main reason, however, is the problem of humiin survival.1 We know how important the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the other Third World regions and also South Africa are for American and European economies, in particular as raw material resources. To cut these links is the last thingwe want to do, and we have no desire 10 provoke ruptures in historically formed, mutual economic intercsts.2 Much will depend on the strength of conviction in the larger vision for global trcinsforn~ation that informs the democratic movement worldwide, prticukirly in its ability to comprehend the Kisic interrelationship between diKcrcnt dimensions of social change and the new set of conlradiciions that arc arising following the latest strategic shifts in
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