[PEN-L:11675] Re: RE: Jubilee 2000 critique

["Patrick Bond" <pbond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was briefly in Brazil, meeting anti-racism comrades a few
years ago, I got the distinct sense from them that church support
for the PT and other movements was understood as based in part
upon a desire to control the movements' potentially redistributive
impulses, particularly regarding church land, in the wake of the
hierarchy's repression of liberation-theology catechists.

On 24 Sep 99, at 20:55, Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
> A former Philosophy professor who just moved to Seattle from Brazil told me
> [through his new wife who translated] that the Rentier Class in Brazil has
> no intention of ever paying off the debts and that if you want real reform
> in Brazil the left should go after the Church's economic holdings [now
> there's an old set off accounting books]...all of them.
>
> ian