[lbo-talk] evangelical antipathy to taxes / governemtn

[Wojtek S]

This doesn't surprise me at all. This happened in Weimar republic as well.
It seems that populism and socialism are bound to part company sooner
rather than later. Marshall Pilsudski, the author of a fascist coup in 1926
who worked with Polish socialists and then turned against them, had a
comment about it: we were all riding on a red tram (trams in Poland are
red) but I got off at the stop "nationalism".

Wojtek
Sent from my Droid
On Feb 22, 2013 10:47 AM, "farmelantj at juno.com" <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


>
> I seem to recall that Richard Lewontin once wrote in an article in The New
> York
> Review of Books on creationism making the point that many of the places in
> the
> US that are currently strongholds of fundamentalism and "scientific"
> creationism
> were, a century ago, strongholds for Eugene Debs's Socialist Party.  In
> fact
> Lewontin made the point that much of contemporary right-wing populism
> represents
> the same sort of antipathy towards self-appointed elites that motivated
> many of
> the supporters of the Socialists in the early 20th century.
>
> Jim Farmelant
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfarmelant/
> http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
> http://www.foxymath.com
> Learn or Review Basic Math
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:12:31 -0600
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] evangelical antipathy to taxes / governemtn
>
>
> (a) States with good social programs have low church attendance
> (b) States with low church attendance create good social programs
>
> Low church attendance comes from where?
>
> And in fact it is pretty low in the U.S. as well.
>
> And a centyury ago many (most?) evangelical Christians were politically to
> the left.
>
> Carrol
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application
> hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting
>
>
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>