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We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

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We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

我們因此提倡一場對工業系統的革命。這場革命可能會也可能不會使用暴力；它可能是一個突然的過程或可能是個相對漫長的數載進程。我們無法預測這些。但我們勾勒出一些概觀的舉措讓那些厭惡這個系統的人們可以遵循以準備推翻這種社會體系的革命。這不是一場政治革命。它的目標不是推翻政府，而是推翻現今社會的經濟和科技基礎。

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所以《論工業社會及其未來》不只是一個分析工業社會的作品，它更像是一個宣言和行動指引。