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5. The goal of radical social change is to avoid the mass slaughter that the current world, as captured in the previous theses, seems to be building towards. The second industrial revolution issued in the industrial-scale murder of scores of millions – in the colonial killing fields, the slaughterhouses of disposable populations, and the famines of catch-up development. There is a real danger that the next century will see exterminations ten to fifty times what the world saw between 1880 and 1980. Confronting that possibility head-on is the task.