tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522506126371019477.post3165926600888155635..comments2021-10-23T14:41:05.823+01:00Comments on Don Milligan's Blog: STALIN TANGLES WITH TROTSKY IN TEHRANModern Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05757426905239687345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522506126371019477.post-33146213461367530382009-09-30T20:50:28.042+01:002009-09-30T20:50:28.042+01:00I would agree. We are the sum total of our experie...I would agree. We are the sum total of our experiences on both a global and personal scale. However, that does not mean that learning the X, Y and Z of the past will in any way shape the A, B or C of the future. To define the future, from where we are now, with all of our expanded understandings, is to shape tomorrow. Looking greater than say 30 years ago for any inspiration is just insane. Give that the rate of change on the globe has accelerated in that time. It must do. The system that we know as capitalism is coming to an end and a new one is being born. ( even if we just take the transitions from Industrial to finance to the now Socialised capital as yard sticks )<br /><br />That must create faster and faster change. Contradictions are unwrapping. Don't waste time by looking in the rear-view mirror. Tomorrow is forward. <br /><br />High rise food production ( after all, we have high rise human production ). <br />Free sun energy from the Sahara. <br />Better usage of our "free" resources. <br /><br />People before profit. <br /><br />MAKE it happen. Not by arguing over the past, but laying out the logic of today and defining what it means to be human, in 2010 and beyond. <br />Peace.<br /><br />Get Connected. http://www.realityinfo.org http://www.realityinfo.org/newsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522506126371019477.post-40803723592804063022009-09-29T20:46:34.986+01:002009-09-29T20:46:34.986+01:00The present is always and inevitably a complex con...The present is always and inevitably a complex confection of past initiatives, creativity, positive and negative forces, ideas and influences of all kinds - neat phrases about what is to come tomorrow will not undo the role of the past in our present.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522506126371019477.post-36206161773035459372009-09-29T09:22:47.226+01:002009-09-29T09:22:47.226+01:00“The central problem for the opposition in Moscow ...“The central problem for the opposition in Moscow was its commitment to the Party and the Communist state.<br />...<br />they were in thrall to the very forces that were crushing them.” - Don Milligan.<br /><br />And so is that professor who compares them to Russia. And so are you for understanding and thinking that Russia could or could not be “a model”. The times have changed. We’ve got global communications and travel. The world is much smaller now. No model that you can drag from the past will form any part of the next human based society, for the very reason that it’s in the past and things have moved on. <br /><br />There is never any “repetition” of history; and to suggest such is a lie; the form of the nature of the perceived event is always more mature.<br /><br />Once you’ve seen; there’s no going back. The material conditions on this planet are revealing the state of this planet to even the most non-seeing of minds, albeit too slowly for my liking. <br /><br />Stand up and be part of tomorrow, and leave yesterday to rest.<br /><br />PeaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com