Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:23:07 -0500 (EST)
From: V600A8E6-AT-ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: Re: Questions for James Miller




On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Robert Peter Burns wrote:

> Religious impulses existed in primitive communal societies, as the
> archaeological/anthropological evidence shows.  This is one minor reason
> why I think they don't have a purely material basis in class divisions. 

Peter, the reason ideologies existed in primitive communal societies was 
due to the level of development of knowledge and the level of development 
of productive forces.  Actually, this is why myth and reality were one.  
It is with the emergence of classes and primitive forms of commodity 
production that we see ideologies qua ideologies develop.

> That's all I have to say at this point, because I am way too busy to have
> to go on reminding you that if you are so confident about the
> disappearance of religious "ideologies", all *you* have to do is work for
> the ending of capitalism, and the disappearance of religion will *take
> care of itself*.  Unless I am right, of course.  Have a nice December if
> that's possible in Buffalo.  Brrrr! 
> 
> Peter
> rburns-AT-scf.usc.edu

The idea is to abolish all classes, not just the capitalist system.

Bufalo is warmer than you think!

Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
V600A8E6-AT-UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU


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