>You can't build a socialist society
>without the technology and social organization that capitalism has
>produced. In fact, you couldn't even imagine one.
I think Colonel Rainbow could imagine it in 1647. I think if one must choose a moment when Britain slipped into modernity it is the moment of the Putney debates.
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Classes/Sources/Clarke.Putney.html
Cheers,. Rob.