The Intersection of Religion and Politics: Analyzing MAGA's Spirituality

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

Mutual Aid Hub 

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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