Jim,

I don't even buy that for a second. The socion, key to A. Augusta's theory, is inherently balanced, meaning that no one (or six types) can dominate the events of human society, and that all values of each quadra balance the others. Gulenko's off the reservation on this one, completely negating A. Augusta's theories. I've seen Gulenko typed as an INTj, my feeling is that he's probably more an ISTj, hence his dependence on a sensory biased tool for evaluating personality. Sergei Ganin, an ESTp, loves his descriptions, and while interesting, are very shallow in most respects. To trivialize the contributions of other quadras to "major" events would mean that the French Revolution, American Revolution, Marxist Revolutions (which all stemmed from perversions of the original alpha quadra political theories) were not major events, as I've never seen Jefferson or Robespierre typed as anything other than INTjs and Marx as anything other than an ENTp. Yes, perhaps beta and gamma quadras spill more blood in the events that they cause (Marxist revolutions, a favorite of the beta quadra, were all pretty bloody), but that hardly qualifies them as being more "major" (read important) than others.

If one sticks to the theory that all ideas must move through each quadra to reach full development, then his theory is bullshit because it implies that it moves into one and stays there. The US mentality, which he refers to, is currenty in the greedy self-interested Ayn Rand stage (as evidenced by Wall St. bonuses this year), but people are getting sick of that, and socialism is anything but a gamma quadra invention or desire, and unfortunately, that's the inevitable conclusion of any society before its collapse.

Thanks for posting the article. Just goes to show that summarizing the history of humanity through socionics is probably best left to those with Ne as a strength, not a weakness.