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Already Lenin realised that electricity constitutes a special form of energy apt to call forth structural changes that may have repercussions on societies. The following quotation is said to be by him “Soviet Power plus Electricity = Communism”. Today we might reformulate this visionary statement “Democracy plus Electricity = Human Society”. Lenin could not anticipate the crucial importance of electricity in the fields of application such as electronics, computers and modern laser technology. His far-sightedness is all the more remarkable.
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Fritsch, B., Schmidheiny, S., Seifritz, W. (1994). The Special Role of Electricity. In: Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Growth Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78742-3_5
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