Re: Re: Re: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-14 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated Thu, 14 Feb 2002 7:39:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, Alan Cibils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2/13/2002, you wrote: > > >Alan, > >3) Verticalism > > > >Doyle > >This begs the question of how a mass organization can truly reflect the > >views of the masses. > > > Thi

Re: Re: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-14 Thread Alan Cibils
At 2/13/2002, you wrote: >Alan, >3) Verticalism > >Doyle >This begs the question of how a mass organization can truly reflect the >views of the masses. This is indeed a key question. In my view, a top-down organization is not very likely to "reflect the views of the masses". As I see it,

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-13 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >Alan writes: > > Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of marxism >as >religion. It would indicate that the likeness of political beliefs to >religion is not exclusive of marxism.< Of course people can be religious about all sorts of political beliefs. Some religious

Re: Re: RE: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Alan Cibils wrote: >At 2/13/2002, Jim Devine wrote: > >>Of course, just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it right. > >Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of >marxism as religion. It would indicate that the likeness of >political beliefs to religion is not exclus

RE: Re: RE: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-13 Thread Devine, James
I wrote: > >Of course, just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it right. Alan writes: > Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of marxism as religion. It would indicate that the likeness of political beliefs to religion is not exclusive of marxism.< Yes. But since Marx

Re: RE: Re: Marxism as Science and Religion

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Cibils
At 2/13/2002, Jim Devine wrote: >Of course, just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it right. Or, just because everyone does it doesn't deny Justin's view of marxism as religion. It would indicate that the likeness of political beliefs to religion is not exclusive of marxism. Alan __