[lbo-talk] "pointing finger of the neighbourhood"

[B.]

Carrol Cox/Crankshaft's school bus of historical
progress is driven by "social forces" and "social
conditions," independent of human volition.

Similar to what 19th century American CONSERVATIVE
William Graham Sumner said:

"The men will be carried along with it and be made by
it. The utmost they can do by their cleverness will be
to note and record their course as they are carried
along, which is what we do now, and is that which
leads us to the vain fancy that we can make or guide
the movement. That is why it is the greatest folly of
which a man can be capable, to sit down with a slate
and pencil to plan out a new social world." (1894)

-B.

Coxshaft wrote:

"Whatever social order follows ours is almost
certainly one in which none of us would very much like
to live in."

Chris Doss asked, reasonably:

"Then why are we struggling for it?"