Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: re:Marxism and Religion


sbourke2 wrote:

> For instance
> there is a close relationship between the language of Exodus and much
> revolutionary language, particularly in terms of sacrafice and liberation
> etc.

I don't doubt it, although, it might be difficult to sort out how
and why religious literature had an effect on revolutionary language -
where the revolutionaries were atheists. I do think that there are
instances in which socialist beliefs have religious antecedents, e.g.
both the Wobblie expression "an injury to one is an injury to all" and
Marx's statement that the English working class can not be free while the
Irish are oppressed are paraphrases of religious lines that appear in
places like the booklet for the  Passover "cedar" service (the one where
the youngest male kid asks questions).

Jerry



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