The outcome of the political struggle will be in part the result of who is able to mobilize whom, but it will also be in large part the degree to which who is able to analyze better what is going on, and what are the real historical alternatives with which we are collectively faced. That is to say, it is a moment at which we need to unify knowledge, imagination and praxis. Or else we risk saying, a century from now, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The outcome is, I insist, intrinsically uncertain and, therefore, precisely open to human intervention and creativity.