What Paul Mason Has in Common With R. Buckminster Fuller

Leftists may be forgiven for being suspicious of the Paul Mason's notion that change will occur without the discipline of an organized political party. They will suspect Mason of trying to "deactivate" their movement and prevent it from acquiring the tools needed for real change. But it is interesting that Mason strikes a theme that is reminiscent of R. Buckminster Fuller when Mason says that capitalism will not be abolished through the use of force, but by creating something that is more dynamic than the current system. Decades ago Fuller wrote "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."