[lbo-talk] Catholicism, was Re: blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 15:06:27 PST 2008


shag carpet bomb wrote:


> i like "useful idiots." (the point: they may identify with the left on
> economic issues but, often, culturally they are right wing. that's not
> especially unusual. there are lots of people sympathetic to a leftist,
> marxist economic analysis who weep over the demise of "culture" and
> "civil society" wrought by the destructive forces of capitalism. etc.
> and so forth.)
>

But this is a good description of pretty much the entire socialist left in, say, 1870-1914.

In fact, isn't Engels' _Condition of the Working Class In England_ a lot of weeping for the demise of culture and civil society wrought by capitalism?

SA



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