"The general notion of history is as a march to the present. It is the mistake of every society to think that the zeitgeist of the present day came about as the result of a series of won compromises and that we are living in “the best of all possible worlds”. The general history of America takes this viewpoint—the Founding Fathers are not seen as revolutionaries in their time—promoting a radically different system than what had came before—but as conservative figures in our time, promoting the current system that we have. Each step in American history—the revolution, the extention of sufferage, the abolition of slavery, the new deal, the civil rights movement etc—is seen as a step towards the present that could only have gone this way when in reality each event had an infinite number of possibilities.” - R.Dobbs, A Critical History of Management
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