Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989 By Paul R. Josephson
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0801894107 | PDF | 2 MB
After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant -- figuratively and literally -- into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea -- and other leaders -- joined Russia's Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and conviction that rivaled the western world's.
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