I appreciate what you are trying to do. I think about how people like the Berrigans used Catholocism to do wonderful progressive work, but I can't imagine expecting to make that religion into a progressive organization.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:07:22PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > What I am doing is twofold: to suggest a way that can get Muslims > interested in historical materialism as an intellectual and political > tool; and to recommend that historical materialists first make efforts > to understand Muslims on their own terms, with all the complexity and > contradiction of their social reality and ideology, just as > anthropologists do. > > I understand that you are not interested in either, but in that case > you might simply ignore what I am saying. > -- > Yoshie > <http://montages.blogspot.com/> > <http://mrzine.org> > <http://monthlyreview.org/> -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
