Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Getting some business that Magic Barry ain't got

2008-05-10 Thread Charles Brown
>>> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/10/2008 3:34 PM >>> On May 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > What religion has over our atheism is optimism, a > can-do spirit, the power of positive thinking. Thus, > religion gets people to _do_ things. It inspires action. > What socialist the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Getting some business that Magic Barry ain't got

2008-05-10 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > What religion has over our atheism is optimism, a > can-do spirit, the power of positive thinking. Thus, > religion gets people to _do_ things. It inspires action. > What socialist theorists need from religion is that > optimism that we can chang

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Getting some business that Magic Barry ain't got

2008-05-10 Thread Charles Brown
The LBO archives are filled with talk that now exceeds the combined collected works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Kim Il Song and Kim Il Jong. We should have by now theory and planning, policy and thought to beat the bourgeoisie. No worry that elaborating a coalition-front--a