[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[wrobert at uci.edu]

I thought I would return to this original comment.  I think that you wind
up with a lot of christian conceptualizations of the world within the
history of European peasant and worker movements, particularly
millenarianism.  This shouldn't be surprising given its ideological
centrality.  Millenarianism in particular offers a productive vocabulary
to challenge modes of power through its particular absolutism.  (It also
produces some fairly horrifying things, but it does represent an
ideological pole of the system that is constantly open to contradiction.) 
It's also not surprising that Marxist political movements would wind up
speaking that language in order to resonate with class struggles that they
are participating in.  As to Marx's theoretical framework, I must say that
your absolute lack of evidence is somewhat unconvincing.  It is even less
so when one has a passing knowledge of Capital and the Grunrisse.  robert
wood


> *In spite of his claims to the contrary, I believe that Marx himself was
> fairly religious and that ideologically his work amounts to Christianity
> dressed in new clothes. Many fundamental metaphysical principles are
> carried over more or less explicitly tr     such as manicheanism and
> belief in a millennium.
>
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