Design for Revolution

 – Priorities and distractions

What is it that hinders us getting on with revolution? last updated 24 April 2008 Latest addition

This page became necessary when I realised that in life it is impossible for most people to concentrate all their energies on any single project, however important, and the other stuff is, in a way, part of the process. I divided the page into priorities, distractions and realities, which was useful for a while, but one particular activity became so absorbing that it didn’t fit any of those. This was the dissertation for my MA in Literature, entitled ‘The Village and the World: A Political Reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s Prose Fiction’, for which I achieved Distinction, and hence for the MA. (20/12/06)

Latest: Links to my OU essays have been removed on request from the University, because of a concern about sales of TMAs being offered on eBay. I would like to retain a link to my dissertation, but have been advised to check whether or not I need permissions for the quotes from Tagore. 24/4/08

Priorities

Distractions

Realities

Lebanon 6/8/06

Make Poverty History 10/4/05

Palestine: reformist single issue but impossible to ignore? 9/2/05

'Jewish Power' and a Response 5/2/05

A Pacifist Position on Palestine 31/1/05
MS Word version

David Hare on Arundhati Roy 21/12/04

‘protecting natural resources [is] unimportant ’ 16/12/04

Family16/12/04

‘Diet Cure’ 24/3/07
and ‘Diet Cure 2’ 27/3/07

I got sent this & just had to keep it:
Looniest Of All 911 Conspiracy Theories 6/2/06

Sheldrake (I've just found this, it is dated 1995) 2/2/06

Making cards: this one for
Marianne de Trey CBE
3/01/06

Mistakes 12/12/05

Volunteer with Elmhirst archive at Dartington 10/10/05 (from 15/05/03)

Devising a new philosophy: Pattern!
(1992-4) 21/12/04

Jan Morris on ‘the male condition’ 20/12/04

Spirituality 19/12/04

Writing a novel: The Completion 18/12/04
(published 1995)

Awemongering 15/12/04

Open University studies 1999-2006

The following article has some useful analysis in it, despite the wacky project behind it – you have been warned!
Dollar imperialism 13/1/06

(Obviously reminiscent of Lenin's 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'. 13/1/06)

Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture
8 December 2005
22/12/05

‘Authentic Americans’?
Terry Eagleton, ‘Postcript’, After Theory ( New York: Basic Books, 2003) pp.223-227
01/12/05

Will there be sport under socialism? 24/11/05

The Rise and Rise of China 14/11/05