[lbo-talk] further evidence that Christers dwindling

[Carrol Cox]

Christianity has 'dwindled' before; and grwon, and dwindled, and grown,
just as leftist activity has or has far-right activity has. Both
fortunately and unfortunately, Yeats was wrong: The Center does Hold.

There is no linear change within capitalist culture, no rachet effect.
What is gained today (wheter from the left or from the right) will not
survice tomorrow or the day after. The (partial) exception are those
gains made by massive (and disruptive) movements. Jim Crow will never
return. But had it been 'eliminated' by polite political action, slowly
gaining from the base, it would have remained a constant threat, never
quite wholly suppressed.

Gradual change under capitalism is always subject to gradual undoing.

Carrol