By Manuel Castells
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The large majority of citizens around the world despise their representatives and do not trust their political institutions (Castells, 2009). The widespread diffusion of the Internet and of wireless communication networks has increased people’s awareness about the wrongdoing of their leaders. Any citizen with a mobile phone may be able to catch such a wrongdoing in the act and instantly upload damaging images on the Internet, to expose the politician to the shame of the world. The only way for the powerful to escape the surveillance of the powerless is to remain invisible in their secluded spaces.
Anderson (1983); Gellner (1983). Calhoun (1994: 17). 9 It is precisely this dual character of civil society that makes it a privileged terrain of political change by making it possible to seize the state without launching a direct, violent assault. The conquest of the state by the forces of change (let’s say the forces of socialism, in Gramsci’s ideology) present in civil society is made possible exactly because of the continuity between civil society’s institutions and the power apparatuses of the state, organized around a similar identity (citizenship, democracy, the politicization of social change, the confinement of power to the state and its ramifications, and the like).
Therefore, the democratic institutions of the Information Age are confronted with the dilemma of how to overcome their current enclosure in the institutional system to democratize the means of mass communication, including the networks of mass communication organized around the Internet. g. Anglo Saxon) culture. Globalization would ultimately lead to a largely homogeneous global society whose logic would only be resisted by the obscure forces of traditionalists and fanatics who should be suppressed with the utmost energy so as to reach the superior state of capitalism: the achievement of world peace by enshrining the twin rules of unfettered markets and liberal democracy.