[lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sun Dec 3 12:17:02 PST 2006


The Guy With The Bag Over His Head:


> "Speaking up against the idiocy of religion." Good
> luck with that. You and Noam Chomsky can spend the
> next 10,000 years shouting facts at people until
> you're blue in the face. Until you develop an inkling
> of the pull that reified social relationships exercise
> upon human consciousness, your contribution to
> effecting any social change will tend towards null.

Actually, Noam's spoken very highly about and has worked with many religious social activists, so I don't know what you're on about here. And I would take care in conflating Chuck's concept of anarchism with Noam's -- the former is much more about dissing The Man than is the latter.

Dennis



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