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Dear Professor Polanyi, | |||
Thank you for letting me see your letter to M.P. of Feb 23/56, of which I am returning 2 copies to you. It hits a superb note. I would only remark that the Orwell calumny of the 1945 - 55 period may have gained plausibility against the backdrop of Auschwitz and Maidanek. One only begins to see how trying and dangerous a period it really was as the darkness is dispelled. | |||
I have been thinking about this question of relativizing the economy. […] | |||
As far as industrialism is concerned, it appears to me that we shall be riding the same horse - only now we shall be in the saddle - and steer in the direction we wish to go. But it still a strange beast, when one thinks about its sudden emergence after 6000 years of recorded history. It is a {{Page |n°=104}} special case of coping with the economic problem, yet its unusual significance is disturbingly elusive. | |||
I am led back to your views of culture as a boundary process, and the independence from nature's pressure as realm of freedom. ([[Abraham_Rotstein,_Weekend_Notes_II#p8|Weekend II, May 5, p. 8]]) It seems to me that here is where industrialism takes its meaning - in the possibilities of freedom it creates, and this would link it to the central ethos of our civilization. | |||
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== Letter Informations == | == Letter Informations == | ||
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'''[[Karl Polanyi Archives (KPI Classification)|KPA]]''': [[49/05]], | '''[[Karl Polanyi Archives (KPI Classification)|KPA]]''': [[49/05]], 103-105 | ||
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Dear Professor Polanyi,
Thank you for letting me see your letter to M.P. of Feb 23/56, of which I am returning 2 copies to you. It hits a superb note. I would only remark that the Orwell calumny of the 1945 - 55 period may have gained plausibility against the backdrop of Auschwitz and Maidanek. One only begins to see how trying and dangerous a period it really was as the darkness is dispelled.
I have been thinking about this question of relativizing the economy. […]
As far as industrialism is concerned, it appears to me that we shall be riding the same horse - only now we shall be in the saddle - and steer in the direction we wish to go. But it still a strange beast, when one thinks about its sudden emergence after 6000 years of recorded history. It is a [104] special case of coping with the economic problem, yet its unusual significance is disturbingly elusive.
I am led back to your views of culture as a boundary process, and the independence from nature's pressure as realm of freedom. (Weekend II, May 5, p. 8) It seems to me that here is where industrialism takes its meaning - in the possibilities of freedom it creates, and this would link it to the central ethos of our civilization.
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