“To reflect upon the present as history is to understand that history may now be made by default. Understanding that, we no longer need accept as “necessary” the lesser evil. We no longer need to accept historical fate, for fate is a feature of specific kinds of social structure, of irresponsible systems of power. These systems can be changed. Fate can be transcended We must come to understand that while the domain of fate is diminishing, the exercise of responsibility is also diminishing and in fact becoming organized as irresponsibility. We must hold men of power variously responsible for pivotal events, we mush unmask their pretentions- and often their own mistaken convictions- that they are not responsible. Our politics, in short, must be the politics of responsibility.” PoliticsFatePolitics Of The United StatesSocial StructurePolitics Of Responsibility Author:C. Wright Mills
“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.” MenIdeasReasonPoliticalGoalFateConsequenceIndependentStatementsContemporaryReasoningSocialistLife Fate Author:C. Wright Mills
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.” YearsIndividualBornHoursFateModernDependsCorporationsModernismBest YearLife Fate Book:The Power Elite Source: The Power Elite
“Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.” MenDecisionResultsFateEventsSummaryEvents In History Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
