ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some thoughts on the political meaning of technology and technological change within contemporary societal development. It discusses a series of general arguments about the question and illustrates them by examining the case of those agricultural technologies generally grouped under the rubric of the Green Revolution. Technology and science exist only as moments of the political fabric and have meaning for us only in terms of their impact on our struggles. The development of technology is thus the immediate result of investment--by corporations and by the state as planner and entrepreneur. The ability of business and government to develop and implement new technologies thus depends in part on their ability to mobilize and control the skilled workers during the production and diffusion of technology. The effort of business to convert technological change into higher profits and more work is the desire to maintain its control over society.
