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Quite a good summary, if a little too Soviet-friendly for my taste:
The Obama Re-Election Campaign, and the Left
The Ryan Nomination, The Obama Re-Election Campaign, and the Left
By Mark Naison
The Ryan Nomination, The Obama Re Election Campaign, and the Left
When the Communist Party and other leftists decided it was a priority to elect President Roosevelt in 1936, they didn't slow down their labor organizing and civil rights agitation - they escalated it. ...
Obama supporters who want progressives to take precious energies away from grass roots movements to re-elect the president are, whether intentionally or not, sabotaging long term possibilities of democratic change. And they are NOT following the example of radicals from the Depression Era who built the industrial labor movement. ...
http://www.laprogressive.com/ryan-nomination/
Are Progressives Harming Their Cause by Attacking Organized Religion and People of Faith?
www.alternet.org/story/156384/are_progressives_harming_their_cause_...
or shorter URL:
http://www.alternet.org/story/156384/
excerpts ...
Just as "liberal" and "socialist" are code words for "un-American radicals" in the weird world of Fox News, sometimes it seems that "religion" and (especially) "Christian" are code words for "twisted sociopaths" or "patriarchal fascists" in the otherwise generally saner world of progressive journalism.
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It is simply false that all (or even most) people of sincere faith — including those who are conservative in their religious commitments — are intrinsically irrational, anti-social, patriarchal, racist, or closed to meaningful dialogue. It is equally false that humanists necessarily see the light and embrace progressive politics. In my case, I am a Christian, a scholar, and for more than 30 years now a socialist who supports public healthcare, gender equality, separation of church and state, environmentalism, and pacifism. My humanist brother reads Ayn Rand, watches Fox News and is a dedicated member of the National Rifle Association. He opposes gun control, is a global warming skeptic and supports expanded use of fossil fuels, including fracking (he owns land in an area where you can scarcely hurl a stone without beaning one or two Chesapeake Energy employees). My brother and I do not conform to the stereotypes, and neither do countless other people.
That is, of course, always the case with stereotypes—they ignore flesh-and-blood human beings. We should know better by now than to engage in a politics of social typing, whether it is promulgated by xenophobic racial profilers on the Right or those of the secular Left who delight in demonizing folk who stubbornly choose to believe things that cannot be proven empirically.
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