[PEN-L:30209] Re: the battle for history

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/12/02 12:44:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jdevine@xxxxxxx writes:


> There is no major 20th-century political tradition without blood on its hands. But the battle over history is never really about the past - it's about the future. When Amis accuses the Bolsheviks of waging "war against human nature", he is making the classic conservative objection to radical social change. Those who write colonial barbarity out of 20th-century history want to legitimise the new liberal imperialism, just as those who demonise past attempts to build an alternative to capitalist society are determined to prove that there is none. The problem for the left now is not so much that it has failed to face up to its own history, but that it has become paralysed by the burden of it.
> s.milne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


I drink to that.

We are slowly entering a time frame where industrial society of two different property relations can be assessed without a certain animal passion.

Interesting article.

Melvin P