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
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Martin Luther King Jr: Dialectics, Materialism, and the Black Radical Critique of Racial Capitalism with Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins
230: How Did We Get Here?
Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion [Fragment 74],"
Max Weber and Walter Benjamin
Without Dream or Mercy
Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?
On the Concept of History - Walter Benjamin
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Bonus Sample: Deep State Religion | Conspirituality podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
