[lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Mar 25 08:28:51 PDT 2007


On Mar 25, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> How many secular leftists are actually involved in struggle for a
> higher minimum wage and things like that and how many religious
> organizations and religious members in secular organizations like
> unions are involved in struggle for them? "Alliance" suggests a false
> impression of being on an equal footing, as if there were many secular
> leftists and secular organizations with no or few religious members,
> which is not the case.

Unions? Working Families Party? There are religious people in them, but they're institutionally secular. What are they, chopped liver?

In your one remaining post of the day, could you explain the point of this obsession? It's just one negative comparison after another, but with no conclusion drawn other than that they're bigger than us.

Doug



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