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FROM July 16, 2005

reading this great old interview with my favorite Marxist theologian/ Punk Planet dun Joel Schalit (now headmaster at tikkun) and if you ignore the overblown intro/annoying conspiratorial questions from the interviewer, you get to the point where Joel, off the cuff, states the following:

"America has a very strong egalitarian ethos, despite being anything resembling an egalitarian state, and there are certain discursive prohibitions upon discriminating and persecuting people on the grounds of class. So Americans are encouraged to find ways to disguise economic discrimination by being given religious frameworks through which to carry on the act of class warfare without having to say so. Religion, at its core, is always about class. And yet it is in absolute denial that it possesses any economic meaning whatsoever."

Tres interressant. The interview's from 2002 but apply it to now and see what you get. Joel is a mind tiger.