“The ideology of high modernism provides, as it were, the desire; the modern state provides the means of acting on that desire; and the incapacitated civil society provides the leveled terrain on which to build (dis)utopias.” SocietyModernism Book:Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“Where the utopian vision goes wrong is when it is held by ruling elites with no commitment to democracy or civil rights and who are therefore likely to use unbridled state power for its achievement. Where it goes brutally wrong is when the society subjected to such utopian experiments lacks the capacity to mount a determined resistance.” DemocracySociety Book:Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
