In
his essays, the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore describes the form of local and global community he
envisaged and tried to bring into being. That vision is compatible with
the aims and development of the Transition Movement, which is motivated
by a recognition that the capitalist machine is running out of control,
to the detriment of planet and people. This reading of Tagore reveals
that, in effect, he advocated a withdrawal from the capitalist system,
‘back to the future’, not to a rustic existence bound by rigid cultural
constraints, but to local cooperative farming and industry, progressive
education and renewed culture and creativity.
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