Re: Empire and Its Servile Masses (was Felix Morrow on religion)

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
  The types of
> religion that tend to inspire workers and peasants' revolts and
> revolutions tend to be messianic and millenarian, which Shinto isn't.

Or the kinds of social relations which tend to encourage revolts are the
kind of social relations which also engender messianic and millenarian
religions.

We have a complex social web and it is not at all clear which elements
are causes, which effects.

Carrol

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