[lbo-talk] Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>>
>Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> >
> > Fine, I will no longer describe people of sincere religious faith as
> > political extremists.  Instead I will refer to them with greater 
>clinical
> > precision as psychotics.  You feel more comfortable now?
>
>This is the sort of thing it is easy to say if you are merely sitting on
>the sidelines and giving a critique of the show. It doesn't help if you
>are interested in actually participating in changing the world. Chip is
>rather more helpful on that.
>
>The flippant use of terms like irrational, psychotic, etc. is
>essentially the same position that Marx sneers at in the Third Thesis on
>Feurbach.

This is not flippant usage.  Religious affirmations are delusional and, to 
the extent they encroach on public affairs, deeply dangerous.  Religion is 
inherently divisive and subversive of progressive politics.  Willingness to 
tolerate pre-Enlightenment thinking in the public sphere in the name of 
building a broad front will avail the left nothing.

Carl