{Personal Transformation and Social Manipulation}[13th October 1990]

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‘Changes also* occur in strategy, which may tend in either of two directions.

**It may emphasise personal transformation,*** bringing about social change by converting a majority of society to implement the values by their actions.

****Or it may emphasise a strategy of social manipulation,*** changing social institutions so that the program may be implemented without regard to the number of people favouring the new order. Failure of a movement to gain a large number of converts, combined with indications that it has at its disposal effective means of coercion, leads to a shift to this type of strategy.’

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*[See last previous entry]

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***[Emphasis per original text (italicised)]

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#[Encyclopaedia Britannica 16:614-5]

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(& see also ibid# ff, eg on alienation & failure as factors giving rise to participation in a movement:)

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