Re: Felix Morrow on religion

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/24/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie loves to tell us how the workers are religious, but they're
> not terribly religious in the Western European social democracies,
> where the working classes have historically been among the strongest
> in the world (and remain stronger than the euroland elite would
> like). It's hard to say which came first, mass secularism or working
> class strength, but it does seem they go together. The American
> working class, by contrast, is pious and weak. Connection?

Why exclude Japan, where the working class are unpious and weak?  :->
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