Re: [Marxism] scientology

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "C W Sedley" <cwsedley@xxxxxxxxx>
> I think that's an important point of distinction that justifies
> viewing Scientology as more wilfully fraudulent than other religions.
> All the major mainstream religions have pre-capitalist origins and are
> amenable to reinterpretation by anti-capitalists. The Scientology
> organisation was born in conditions of monopoly capitalism and has the
> structure and outlook of an extremely repressive and superstitious
> management training seminar, and exercises control over the
> interpretation of its doctrines just as any firm controls the use of
> its means of production. This makes it impossible to conceive of (for
> example) a Latin American "Liberation Scientology" movement.

While I take your point, I wouldn't quite go that far. In fact, such things 
(reinterpretations and the like) do exist. Check out the Wikipedia article 
on the Free Zone, a set of people who practise the so-called scientology 
tech without adhering to the church. URL: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Zone_(Scientology)

--David.


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