-Joseph Choonara, "Confronting Britain's far-right problem" IN International Socialism, 184, Autumn 2024, pp. 3-22 AT p. 3.
Choonara proceeds to discuss a recent moment when, by contrast, the tide was turned but let's stay with his opening sentence which unintentionally encapsulates Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History:
contemporary society, as of the time of writing of the opening instalment, "Marius," is overwhelmed by World War III;
the Psychotechnic Institute is overwhelmed by the Humanist Revolution;
the Humanists are soon overwhelmed by a counterrevolution which, however, does not restore the Institute;
the Solar Union and the Order of Planetary Engineers are overwhelmed by the Second Dark Ages;
the Stellar Union and its Coordination Service are overwhelmed by the Third Dark Ages;
despite all that has gone before, psychotechnicians mentally control cosmic energy in a far future Galactic civilization.
