[lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Luther's indecision, his fear of the movement, assumed serious
> > proportions; his cowardly servility towards the princes corresponded
> > closely to the hesitating, vacillating policy of the middle-classes.
> > The revolutionary energy and decisiveness of Muenzer, on the other
> > hand, was seen in the most advanced faction of the plebeians and
> > peasants.
>
> But there are Lutheran churches all over the place today, and who
> remembers Muenzer today (except for people who used the old GDR
> banknote with his pic on it)?

One function of culture is to remember, and one function of culture on
the Left is to remember what the ruling class have us forget.


> Servility to the princes won that battle.

That -- servility -- is the main obstacle to building any Left here,
not Protestantism or anti-intellectualism.
-- 
Yoshie
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