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inter-state relations. It will also depend on the ability of these movements to affect global power structures and the technological hegemony of countries like the US, Japan and Western Europe and major countries (like China and India) that arc being drawn into their vortex. There will also be need for the theory of revolution based on earlier conceptions to come to grips with the new reality in which it is quite openly being advocated that working class interests have to be subjugated to "common human values" and that this constitutes the "core of the new political thinkingv.= Similarly, earlier conceptions of nation-building, 'development' and social change will need to deal with the possible response of the world status (ino to the new challenge posed by visionaries likc Gorbachev and others. To assume that just because the overall statement includes, alongside demilitarisation, issues of human rights, environment and "the crying social problen~s of the developing world" does not ensure that this will all achieved in the slime measure or even in small measures, or that new contradictions betwcen these diverse goals will not arise. Alongside the social implications of the New Reconciliation in the states system attempted at the apex thereof, there is another set of issues that will need to be confronted both by statesmen and by leaders of various movements. First, how will countries and economies that have benefitted from the war system and arms trade on the one hand and the new model of techno-capitalism linked with military high-tech and com- puter science on the other respond to the new initiatives and the new stance towards the arms race? It is crucial not to overlook the fact that the newest version of industrial capitalism, especially in the United States but also in countries likc France and Germany, had been heavily linked to the R&D genera- ted by the latest phase in the militarisa- lion and control of the outer space. Secondly, how will the Third World countries that were also benefiting from such a model of high capitalism (especially the NICs and aspirant NICs like India and China) respond to the same? I'he first issue raises the whole question of the emerging split within the North between the two superpowers who have had to pay much of the cost of keeping the arms race going and whose population and economy seem to have borne much of the.brunt of the same and other industrial 'giants' who have reaped considerable economic advantages from the arms race (as also within the US between the hawkish beneficiaries of the SDI and the Pentagon on the one hand and the State Department and the US Congress on the other. The second issue highlights the emerging split within the Third World keen on getting integrated into the world market and those left out of such an integrated model and made to 'stew in their own juices' as will, for instance, be the case with large parts of Africa. Underlying both, of course, lies the major contem- porary shift of techno-capit~ilisn~ from the Atlantic to the cast of the Pdcilic, the latter in some ways posing a far more ruthless and amoral conception of state power, technology and social control than ur;is the case until the
Atlantic alliance held sway. Similarly, the NIC phenomenon within the Third World threatens to undermine what remains of the old vision of a 'Third Way' based on the Non-Aligncd movemem on the one hand and the challenge posed by the (3-77, NII;0, OPEC and other radicalised assertions of the Third World on the other. The point is that rum-alignment (a concept to which some movements in the North have also got attracted) is meaningless unless it also pursues and promotes the path of self-reliant development both for the St;ite and for various constituents of people that constitutes the State, taking the self- rcgiird, honour and dignity in the idea ol' not joining any power bloc down to the populace as a whole, especially the more marginaliscd and oppressed sec- lions thereof, thereby putting an end to the contradiction between the rhetoric of frcedorn and autonomy in the inter- national arena and the reality of hcge- monic:!! structures of governance, development and culture at home - from which
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