It’s an illusion
Separate technology’s another thing
Historically.
There’s no autonomous technology
Nor any ingrained tendency
To dynamic autonomy
As economic history.
The greatest part of history’s
Stagnation in technology.
And most of modern history’s
Been technic ideology
Or ‘instrumentality’.
And separate technology
Is class domination —
(Hegemony).
It’s just not just autonomy
That support for technology
Is hegemonic agency —
So that technological autonomy
Has mystery
As history.
In spite of shared technology
The class-active history
Of the British motor industry
Is different from that of the French.

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