Changing Paradigms of Development: The Evolving Participatory Society

Broadly speaking humanity has experienced six revolutions so far. The present ongoing revolution led by a coalitional vanguard focuses simultaneously on three sources of deprivation exploitation, discrimination and oppression. This gives birth to intense conflicts between the cumulatively dominated and the cumulatively dominant^ It is suggested that these revolutions should be viewed as responses to bur major paradigms of development focusing on charity and social reforms. capital and technology. protest and mobilisation and quality of life. respectively The conjunction of the sixth revolution and the fourth paradigm of development is a happy augury in evolving a participatory society.