Chapter VIII : The Machine Begins To Self-Destruct, p. 189-190
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The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.
— Charles A. Reich
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About Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.
About Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.
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