[lbo-talk] Stalinism's record (was Fidel)

[tfast]

>
> --- tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> > >
> > See now it is odd to me that you could theorize
> > anyone in the US as outside
> > of modernity surely the evangelicals are strand of
> > modernity, perhaps not an
> > unadulterated enlightenment, but then where did that
> > ever exist?  Perhaps it
> > is better to think of the enlightenment and
> > modernity as a process with
> > actions and reactions that are constituted from
> > within the phenomena in
> > question?
> >
> > Travis
>
> When was the last Jewish Blood Libel Trial in the US,
> and when was the last American killed for practicing
> witchcraft? 1750? Even US evangelicals are de facto
> secularists on this plane.
>
HUH?  The point is that Evangelical's have some pretty odd beliefs like the
world is 6000 years old and that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem all beliefs
not based on 2+2 + = 4 type logic.  But though they be superstitious they
are still modern and children of the enlightenment nonetheless.  As I would
argue are most peasants in the world today.  Modernity is by now an amalgam
of itself no?

Travis