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Tess of the d’urbervilles

We got to know there is no paradise on the earth. I believe paradise only exists in the memories of our childhood. Because of that, many social movements that aim to make a paradise always end up failing. So we must accept that our world isnt a paradise. That is something which is too bitter for us though. That is why mankind created some ways to comfort themselves with several virtual ways. Still, we necessarily need to acknowledge the reality that There is no paradise on earth and around it. Around 1970, an Economics Minister of Sweden visited Japan and gave a speech. I watched it on TV and was much touched by it. He said, There is no paradise on earth and around it. On the acknowledgment of that, we must think what nations can do and play a role. I was struck with his realism. Without realism, nations often make huge mistakes. Japanese stratocracy fell in a big mistake for a few decades because they lost realism. Europe got disenchanted in socialism during the Spanish Civil War in 1 During tess of the d’urbervilles war, not only socialists but also anarchists, democrats and several movements gathered in the people front. In the war, they were betrayed by Soviet Union. It was a big experience for George Orwell and he wrote Homage to Catalonia as a betrayed revolution. As they got to know more about the reality of the Soviet Union, progressive young people broke down with socialism. After WW2, the communists in France and Italy looked for ways of democratic socialism. At last, Europeans reached to EU. It isnt built by the socialists though, that is the tess of the d’urbervilles way to survive for Europeans. Can we build democratic socialism? If it is possible, then I believe it can exist on the opposite side of globalism. In that sense I mean local production for local consumption. The wave of things like slow food or slow life comes more than once. That is kind of that.