On 1/9/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After dropping out of the SWP in 1979, I got involved with Central American solidarity around two years later. For most of the decade, this involvement brought me into contact with a wide range of Catholic support groups in the USA and with "liberation theology" in Nicaragua. Delegations to Nicaragua inevitably included a visit to a cathedral in Managua where services conducted along "liberation theology" guidelines. (That being said, nobody could ever miss the fact that most of the attendees were foreigners.)
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One of my favorite all time stories: Fidel Castro visited a collective farm during his first trip to Nicaragua following the Revolution in that country. One elderly campesino asked him about his religion. Castro replied that he was a non-believer. The fellow responded by asking Castro what kind of revolutionary could he be, after all the guy asserted, he had learned about revolution in church. Several years hence, Castro proposed that the CCP allow for members who professed religious faith. His motion was defeated. Michael Hoover
