Re: [Marxism] The criticism of religion [was: RE: Vnzla:reasonstobeoptimistic]

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joaquin Bustelo wrote, "My basic point was that the balance sheet on the
U.S. Left over the past half century is not a positive one. This is a
different thing than saying social struggles made no gains . . . ."

I suppose everything depends on how you might arbitrarily choose to define
these things, which is why I episodically try to remind people that
historical materialism just ain't a social science, where you can suck
models of reality out of historical context and apply them like you're
measuring bridge spans....

Still, the very making of this distinctions between "the U.S. Left" and
"social struggles" is extremely interesting.  It requires a distinction that
mandates a view of "the U.S. Left" as an inorganic, unconnected vanguard
separate and apart from those "social struggles."

I can only say that I've not been a member of such a " U.S. Left" for the
last forty years.

ML








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