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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