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Whatever the peculiarities of the Russian church today - and it's a bit different from the pre-revolutionary church - it's hard to miss the fact that the most extensive anti-capitalist discourse in the Global South today is Christianity, primarily Catholic Christianity. There aren't many competitors. On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Tom Cod <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really, like since when have Marxists been concerned about the > "Russian Church" being "cohesive". Who thinks like that? not the > Bolsheviks or the Mensheviks, certainly not the SRs or anyone > progressive. As in Spain, the Church was viewed as an anathema as a > bastion of feudalist reaction and a sponsor of pogroms. Historically, > The Black Hundreds, White Guardists, racist Pamyat skinheads and other > reactionaries are the kind of people who upheld the Church. > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > >> On 8/28/12 7:08 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: >> >>> (2) One of the few attempts I've seen to assess the class forces at work >>> in the Pussy Riot affair is >>> <http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/23/the-secret-history-of-pussy-riot/>. >>> >> >> You're joking, right? >> >> Israel Shamir, the knucklehead author, writes: >> >> "And indeed the Russian Church was attacked by forces that do not want >> Russia to be cohesive: the oligarchs, big business, the media lords, the >> pro-Western intelligentsia of Moscow, and Western interests which naturally >> prefer Russia divided against itself." >> >> "Do not want Russia to be cohesive?" >> >> "Prefer Russia divided against itself"? >> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
