Greetings Economists, On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
The American working class, by contrast, is pious and weak. Connection?
Doyle; Well another perspective on this is there is no alternative in an organized sense for most people for a community that isn't gonna pull you down. Even so, religious morality is declining everywhere in the U.S. What has the left to offer in replacement. Nussbaums' slogan, 'say everything' is aimed at the concept of privacy, but socialists have long been aimed at the problems of isolated individualism. In the main workers suffer a lot and what do socialist offer? Hard political work as an option? What about the huge slug of population who can't muster the will? Are we chained to an elite group of workers and their allies to form the van guard party? Christians offer a model of a 'whole' society. Their model uses sin or opposition as a lever to enforce a narrowly moral society, but moralism covers over cravings for intimacy that all share but can't realize unless they have great wealth to live more openly whatever. Doyle
