> Curious:
>
> Who on this list believes the world has changed significantly in the last 12
> months, in a way it has not changed in 40 years?
>
> I believe that. Do others?
>
> Carrol
It's too early to tell. :)
The period you've identified includes the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc, the social and economic transformation of China, the development of computer technology, the accelerated decline of the trade union and socialist movements in the advanced capitalist countries, and the supplanting of the left by Islamists in the leadership of most of the national movements in the developing world.