-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Justin Schwartz Enviada em: terça-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2001 20:09 Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Assunto: Re: RES: RES: Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done?
The Unitarians, the United Methodists, the United Church of Christ, among the Protestants, are big progressive denominations. There are a lot of hard-core progressive Catholics, nuns and priests who make a career of getting arrested blockading weapons plants and the like. There was and to some extent is a Marxian-influenced Catholic tendency called Catholic Worker founded by a great woman named Dorothy Day. There's a left-progressive journal (mostly Protestant) called Sojourners, from which you can track the religious left in America. This is the white churches. The black churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the Black Southern Baptists (the white S.B. are reactionary racists), are the political organization of the overwhelmingly liberal black community. Yeah, I know the lack of Marxist influence is a problem, but this is America, the land of the free. You can't say that here. What are you, some kind of a commie?
--jks
-Thank you for those good informations. I will try to get some material on -those groups in the Internet. -On your question, I think I can´t be considered an orthodox communist, since -I think democracy is absolutely essential if you want to build socialism. Is -there a word to name followers of Rosa Luxemburg? (whose works I´m just starting -to read, but I consider her the second best Marxist writer, second only to Marx, -and who had a strong pro democracy stance- see his work on Russian Revolution)
Alexandre Fenelon