It is impossible to speak seriously about Marxism in the West without incorporating the role of Christianity in each social formation. “Western Marxism has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Viet Nam, and Cuba.”
I would recommend reading this and sending this to any radlibs/DSA/anarchists you know
liberalism is largely shaped by modern secular Christianity.
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher https://b-ok.cc/book/5288094/3badf7
Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.
If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects and social relationships of their mystery and sacredness. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand.
Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit. Later, the corporation was mystically animated with human personhood, to preside over the Fordist endeavor to build a heavenly city of mechanized production and communion. By the twenty-first century, capitalism has become thoroughly enchanted by the neoliberal deification of "the market."
I interesting. Seems like a broader view. Would be interesting to think of conservativism as old testament (interesting link with zionism/conservativism getting along) and Liberalism being new testament with its focus on sin and forgiveness.
Never really connected capital with god. Just about balling, but interesting to think in terms of the trinity. Money as the son, markets as the holy ghost and constitutionalism as the father.
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher https://b-ok.cc/book/5288094/3badf7
I interesting. Seems like a broader view. Would be interesting to think of conservativism as old testament (interesting link with zionism/conservativism getting along) and Liberalism being new testament with its focus on sin and forgiveness.
Never really connected capital with god. Just about balling, but interesting to think in terms of the trinity. Money as the son, markets as the holy ghost and constitutionalism as the father.