Re: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie, will I be seeing you again at the American Baptist Convention
this year?

On 12/3/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx> 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/>
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