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[I]f current social developments and dilemmas of public life cannot be grasped in the categories of current social theories, it is more likely that the problem lies with the theories than that ‘reality’ itself has become intrinsically ungraspable. […] If this is so, the challenge is to re-construct its explanatory categories, not to de-construct the explanatory undertaking. (Holmwood 1996: 25)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it. Karl Marx and Frederick Engles (1846), Theses on Feuerbach, Thesis XI