The importance of religion in the broader socialist movement has always been there. This includes in western societies.
While I fully concur with critiques of male-domination in the Left, I'm not sure that the desperate push for a solution by women driven by catastrophic collapse will yield any more than it did among workers. In both cases, you can get a reaction to the prospect of socialism that moves to the right. What is the basis for assuming that the role of religiously motivated women in the US been more progressive than that of religiously motivated men? And the entire question of the homophobic impulse among many (not all, but surely most) of the self-defined born-agains leaves me unable to get too optimistic about the likelihood that it will work to our advantage. And once you get into an organizationally imposed idea of what religion will mean to people, you are, by definition, excluding those who don't accept that idea, right? Solidarity! Mark L.
