Re: What time is it ?

[g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx]

These are an interesting series of posts.  Meditations on time and
politics.  It has alyways seemed to me that political time is not the
same as biological time.  They have a very different rhythmic.  For most
of the "time", bioloigcal time is quicker.  But when the class struggle
heats up we can be left gasping at the speed of political time.
Bhaskar (oops) has some very interesting things to say about this!!

Different factors are involved.  Here in Australia with elections every
two years the use by date of politicians comes very very quickly.  While in
Britain
the old farts that were there in the 70s have only just faded out.

Generally I agree that constantly looking for the apocalypse is
politically bad.  In Left organisations it is used often along with a hyper
emphasis on security to enforce top down command structures.
So I agree the clock is certainly not close to midnite.

But it is
important to remember that we are never back where we were.  Memory is
real.  Thus is is not the 1880s or the 1890s.  Then socialists had
unmitigated hope.  We have to live with the tragedy of failure and the
moral uncertainty that is Stalin's chief legacy.


regards

Gary


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