[lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend

[Lenin's Tomb]

On 3/25/07, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Rosa Luxemburg said that the problem with reformism wasn't that it was a
> different road to the same path, but that it was a different road to a
> different path. That's what I think about religious sentiments. Engagement
> might lead you towards salvation and the kingdom of heaven, if that is what
> you want, but it is unlikely to lead the religious to revolution, or to make
> God's Kingdom on Earth.

That is a non-sequitur.  Religion doesn't lead you to socialism, but
this doesn't follow that the two can in no way be coextensive.  Given
the political polyvalence of most religious beliefs, and given that
huge numbers of socialists have had religious beliefs, there is no
reason to assume that one can't engage with religious people simply
because their faith doesn't automatically incline them in that way.