Yoshie, will I be seeing you again at the American Baptist Convention this year?
On 12/3/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > implies, though I'm sure > > that is not A.N.'s intention, that Marxism is a > > religion > > Certainly not a religion, but an ideology. I > appreciate that PEN-L and lbo-talk are full of all > sorts of critical, non-dogmatic people who apply the > label Marxist to themselves. My question is: why? > Isn't it confusing to then clarify why one is a > Marxist despite not adhering to this or that aspect of > Marxist orthodoxy? For both better and worse, Marxists have been more like Protestants than Catholics, especially after the height of Stalinism. :-> You don't agree with the doctrine, you tinker with it here and there, you part company with the hierarchy, you start a new church, and then voila, countless Marxist denominations, just like countless Protestant denominations. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
-- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
