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Manage episode 453200000 series 2763687
An essay from Matthew on how MAGA religiosity obscures the religious nature of liberalism, and how both obscure the underlying religion of capitalism.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin, who in 1921 wrote:
One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to satisfy the same worries, anguish, and disquiet formerly answered by so-called religion. Capitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was. Within it everything only has meaning in direct relation to the cult: it knows no special dogma, no theology.
Show Notes
Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion [Fragment 74],"
Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?
On the Concept of History - Walter Benjamin
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605 episodes
Manage episode 453200000 series 2763687
An essay from Matthew on how MAGA religiosity obscures the religious nature of liberalism, and how both obscure the underlying religion of capitalism.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin, who in 1921 wrote:
One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to satisfy the same worries, anguish, and disquiet formerly answered by so-called religion. Capitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was. Within it everything only has meaning in direct relation to the cult: it knows no special dogma, no theology.
Show Notes
Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion [Fragment 74],"
Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?
On the Concept of History - Walter Benjamin
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
605 episodes
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