Shakers violate vulgar materialist law

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Jan 22 10:56:02 PST 2002


Isn't possible that the Shakers' religious basis was responsible for *both* their medium-term success *and* their long-term decline.

The first because their religion provided the personal and ideological solidarity that allowed their communities to be economically competitive in the rural US of the 19th century; the second because it prevented them from evolving either into capitalist corporations or into a general movement for general social change?

Julian

^^^^^^^^^^

CB: There's a straight forward vulgar materialist explanation for the Shakers' decline. They had the superstition of not believing in having sex.



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