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Humanity stands at a crossroads in this first part of the twenty-first century. The crossroads appears as a precipice, a time of crisis. The crisis is the greatest faced in the last five hundred years. The social system that has tied societies into a human system since Europeans invaded the Western Hemisphere is collapsing.
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© 2014 Geoffrey R. Skoll
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Skoll, G.R. (2014). Introduction. In: Dialectics in Social Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137387066_1
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