tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post2478958458382270839..comments2024-03-12T02:18:53.121-07:00Comments on Molly'sBlog: mollymewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-21122182357320356712011-05-15T21:47:49.198-07:002011-05-15T21:47:49.198-07:00No Larry, I don't think "collapse" i...No Larry, I don't think "collapse" is on the cards at all but rather a slow gradual slide if you want to be pessimistic. Maybe not you and I, but younger people will gradually see a world where something like driving is the privilege of the privileged and where the USA's empire is quite restricted by other powers. Hopefully not a world, though this is possible, where famine takes the place of birth control. <br /><br /><br /> The "open space" that you speak of is already a reality in most developed economies, and the responses are actually HUGE if one bothers to look.mollymewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608757779720671118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-60616189332157150162011-05-09T09:50:40.347-07:002011-05-09T09:50:40.347-07:00Some revolutions have opened up spaces where the ...Some revolutions have opened up spaces where the gradual changes you mention are possible.<br /><br />But today we are faced with the problem that gradual change has been made almost impossible by the post-1980 wave of reaction. Making positive change impossible has been their goal all along. Just to go back to 1970's social democracy would require a full blown revolution.But I certainly don't see revolution around the corner or even in distant corners. Revolutions might occur in the Arab world or some other so-called underdeveloped countries, but in spite of the poverty the level of alienation is much less among these people than in the developed world. (I cannot see a "nation of suburbs" making a revolution.)<br /><br />And if neither reform nor revolution are possible this leaves collapse as the other option. Perhaps this is what we should be preparing for...Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32250954.post-55578681825043580782011-05-07T14:00:39.728-07:002011-05-07T14:00:39.728-07:00I feel that certain assumptions made by the left a...I feel that certain assumptions made by the left are not valid, the politics of the left, this includes anarchist, is just another way to channel political power when the real problem is the power itself. Revolution is a process of conflict and confrontation which leads to sacrifice of our leading cadre but also establishes new social channels for political power to rule again. We need a new radicalism which has consensual process shared cooperative economy with its own culture. Also; here is an interesting publication now translated into english from Italy<br />http://a-rivista.org<br />Dick MartinDickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13538593446219350116noreply@blogger.com