50 SOCIAL SCIENTIST when the world will be embarking on a new era of organic science and pollution-free technology. The success of the advanced capitalist countries in technologising their industry and communication system in good time and putting themselves ahead in the world economic relations is accompanied by an almost equal success in offering strong resistance against Marxism as the creed of the working class in their own territories. The workers allegedly are found to be integrated into the affluent consumerist society in a generic 'fashion not-withstanding their poignant feeling of alienation in the shop-floor. Economism, quite unapologetic about itself, proves an insurmountable obstacle to a politically programmed working class movement. The professionally managed media along with the steady pouring in of luxuries into the affluent workers' budget has heretofore combatted the effect of unemployment, real and potential, at the political level, with reasonable success.2 These countries have nearly a century-old history of coping with a series of debacles thrown up by the uncertainties of capitalist economy by means of what Schumpeter would call a 'perennial gale of creative destruction1. One might guess that this success has produced a deterministic bias in favour of technology among a section of the intellectuals of these countries. The notion of a technological revolution has been riding high among the intellectual 'think-tank' in the USA, Britain, France and similar other countries where megacorporations are pulling the strings of the economy within and across the national frontiers. This particular train of thought has thrown a formidable challenge to the contemporary Marxists who now find it imperative to produce convincing analyses of the present socio-economic developments in these countries in terms of the Marxist paradigm. The debate has been going on for the last five decades since the inception of the idea of the 'managerial revolution' by James Burnham in 1941. Burnham diagnosed a 'silent* revolution already in the process in industrialised societies. The capitalist system was irreversibly progressing toward a transition to the managerial order wherein the technical managers in the corporate sector would allegedly hold the key to the economy.3 Though Burnham cited the USSR as an exemplary case of managerial order, his ideas, along with those of many others like Hoselitz, dark Kerr etc. triggered an animated debate over the social consequences of technological innovations in the advanced capitalist societies. The long train of thought that followed was chequered with stormy debates. The debaters agreed more or less on the broad parameters of the social changed that had followed from the so-called 'technological revolution'. But they have been unbridgeably divided over the ideological meaning and significance of the change. The idea of convergence between the two ideological camps of bourgeois liberalism and state socialism is supported by elaborate