If we actually had a political party here on the Left and I had belonged to one, I'd make a case for what I have been saying in that context, if the party had the same type of problem that I see among many individual leftists, closing the party to participation of Muslims, Latino immigrants, etc and making the party unfocused or insufficiently focused on US wars in the Middle East. The problem is that any thought that anyone irreligious has here now will remain more or less personal in the USA unless there is a political vehicle that takes it up. Such a political vehicle may never arise in the USA, to be sure. The chances are that nothing will do, and it won't matter what anyone thinks about anything.
On 3/16/07, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > Yoshie wrote:
> > > >You may not recolonize it,
> > >
> > > I like that one. ;)
> >
> >Just as many Islamists who have taken their ideas about capitalism
> >from Marxism don't recognize it, as James Heartfield noted.
>
> I meant I thought writing "recolonize" was funny.
Oh, I didn't realize that -- it is funny, and fitting, too! I think all sides of debates on Marxism and religion have actually practiced a kind of intellectual colonialism often without knowing it. -- Yoshie