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Nov 4, 2021 · While Marx believed the end of capitalism would come in the form of a working-class revolt due to capitalism’s failures, Schumpeter instead believed that capitalism’s successes would eventually destroy the system from within—a prediction that in many ways looks to be coming true at a more rapid rate than ever.
Feb 19, 2018 · A proposal doing the rounds of late suggests that capitalism has replaced traditional religion as the faith of many people around the globe. The emphases and sources vary – ranging from Walter Benjamin’s fragment from 1921 called ‘Capitalism as Religion’ to Buddhist criticisms – but the outline is largely similar.
Capitalism as Religion. "Capitalism as Religion" (German: Kapitalismus als Religion) is Walter Benjamin 's (1892—1940) unfinished work, written in 1921. It was published in 1985 and forms part of Benjamin's early sketches on social and political theory, religion, and the theory of history. In this fragment, [ Note 1 ] Benjamin argues that ...
First, capitalism is a religion which consists entirely of cult; it has no specific dogma nor theology. Secondly, capitalism is characterised by the permanent duration of the cult - 'without respite and without mercy'. There is no 'weekday', no day 'that would not be a holiday in the awful sense of exhibiting all sacred pomp'.
Oct 6, 2017 · The last half-century has seen a shift, not from religion to no religion but from one type of religion to another. François Gauthier argues that scholars of religion have often ignored the rise of economics as a dominant and structuring social force beginning in the 1980s and, as such, how consumerism and neoliberalism have shaped religion. He ...
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Jun 9, 2020 · He argues that: …capitalism is a form of enchantment—perhaps better, a mis enchantment, a parody or perversion of our longing for a sacramental way of being in the world. Its animating spirit is money. Its theology, philosophy, and cosmology have been otherwise known as “economics.”. Its sacramentals consist of fetishized commodities ...
