[lbo-talk] Leszek Kolakowski dies

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jul 18 09:07:40 PDT 2009


Matthias Wasser wrote:
>
> Is Christianity reactionary? (This isn't necessarily a rhetorical
> question.)

Not necessarily or even probably. The notion that there is a necessary relationshp between any given religion and a given politics is an idealist fallacy. Men & women shape their religion to fit their politics, which flow from their total life experience, rather than shape their politics according to religious dogma. Pracicve is prior to theory.

Carrol

P.S. I'm not going to attempt to argue this, but the notion that language has a history prior to and independent of human social history is also an idealist fasllacy.



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