Re: Sam Smith on Doug Henwood
On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Luther’s indecision, his fear of the movement, assumed serious proportions; his cowardly servility towards the princes corresponded closely to the hesitating, vacillating policy of the middle-classes. The revolutionary energy and decisiveness of Muenzer, on the other hand, was seen in the most advanced faction of the plebeians and peasants.
But there are Lutheran churches all over the place today, and who
remembers Muenzer today (except for people who used the old GDR
banknote with his pic on it)? Servility to the princes won that battle.
Doug