Re: [PEN-L] stuff on divisions within the working class

[Devine, James]

Michael Perelman wrote: > >>What is the attractiveness of the Evangelical faith.   Doug writes: > >Absolute certainty, no? Every question is answered, every role is > >prescribed. Just like some debased forms of Leninism.   Adrienne writes: > What is the appeal? > strong community > families which take care of elders and kids > hours spent with people you know cooking, eating, & singing > stimulation for both brain and emotion. > > I am afraid of the evangelical mindset you speak about, but we > need to offer much more to contra-act it's appeal in a world where > communities are routinely destroyed by corporate greed.   In the olden days, the social democratic and labor movements in a lot of countries provided a lot of the community that Adrienne refers to. Then, a lot of that went away as the social democratic and labor movements became part of the government, encouraging the bureaucratization of the community relations (sometimes for good reason). Then, the movements faded, eventually undermining the principles of the governments.   For awhile, a lot of the “new social movements” (anti-war, feminist, environmentalist, etc.) provided a lot of community.   (this is in HTML format. Is it readable?) JD