But the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old ones. (Robert Heilbroner)

But the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old ones.

Robert Heilbroner

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