Re: Felix Morrow on religion

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/24/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An established church is
> suspect even by scarcely class-conscious workers. Under the slogan of
> freedom from state domination, the church performs its best work for
> capitalism.
>
> full: http://www.workersaction.org.uk/23Articles/23Morrow&Religion.htm

Under the doctrine of separation of church and state, workers choose
their own churches, so attacks on "the church," "religion," etc. in
the abstract will not get very far, for most workers, who are
religious, take such attacks for attacks on them and their faiths.
But most Anglo Marxists don't understand different contexts require
different approaches to workers' faiths.

In the USA, Marxists might, for instance, aim for separation of church
and science instead.  For most denominations of most religions have no
problem reconciling their faiths with science in practice and only
Christian fundamentalists have trouble doing so.
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