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De socialist heeft zijn relatie met het verleden altijd als technische schakeling gelegd. Hij was van geboorte af niet zozeer revolutionair of ketter, maar een mediatechnicus. Boeken, pamfletten, kranten, stellingen, manifesten, interventies, polemiek en kritiek het socialisme was een literaire beweging die geloofde in de overtuigingskracht van het woord om de revolterende meute in de juiste richting te manoeuvreren.
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The socialist has a good relationship with his own hard disk. Like the ex-Marxists, he learned the hard way, with mnemonics of steel. To him, history isn't just one of many possible areas to click into, but the domain where the driving principles at the root of recent data can be found. The socialist's relationship with the past has always been a technical connection. From birth, he was not so much a revolutionary or a heretic, but a media engineer. Books, pamphlets, newspapers, proposals, manifestos, interventions, polemic and criticism; socialism was a literary movement that believed in the word's power of persuasion in manoeuvring the revolting horde in the right direction. For the socialist, the words did not underlie the event, but they could direct it so that it could discriminate between the chance circumstances of riots and the iron dynamics behind them. For him an event is not a
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