Explaining Karl Marx's Theory of Religion

[@danielretta1837]

Very interesting but where are you quoting from? Would love to do some further reading

[@jeanettesdaughter]

“A matter of feeling and aesthetics… “ quite. I’m a person who prefers reason over custom and although I am not “ religious” I am a believer in an abstraction. I cannot begin to explain it. It’s a mystery even to me. Not the dogma or the rituals of faith as I know them, just the evidence of things unseen ( like quanta!) and the substance of things hoped for, even Emily Dickinson’s hope - hope, that thing with feathers. As almost all religion today has been reduced to nationalism and political struggle I shy from all of them and just seek to marry my own mind to my heart so that I have a moral compass to guide me. I am killing no one or wanting no one gone because of or in the guise of religion. Caste is the source of our discontents in history and not even science seems to budge it. The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves. Full circle. As the Muslims say: the greatest jihad is self. Thank you for this series, I learned much. I do find neoliberalism detestable! And in the charismatic I find no cure for what ails us as human beings and particularly in the very religious African Diaspora. Where do we go from here? It is clear that absolute power in the hands of men leads to absolute corruption of all the people and a rain of money to sustain the whole phenomenon. Social factors matter more. At least the prosocial spaces not necessarily religious ones that may be a middle ground to meet to solve human problems. We’ve no choice really but to meet in a welcoming prosocial space. If we do not meet there, Genocide and the ultimate destruction of all feeling and aesthetics beckons.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Having gone over the various political forces of the present, I would say that Marxism feels old fashioned - and yet there's oddly no paleo marxist ideology, because it tries not to be deontological, even though it almost has become that way just by the glacial force of time itself.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Que⁉️

[@FinestSkydiver]

3:50

[@TurnOnTheBrain]

Gj m8

[@alexsveles343]

When people are in a turmpium and huge stress…this is when religion emerges
Nazism and Comunism are latest two new religions

[@Rajomega1]

Capitalusm is a religion too

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Nonsense. The religiosity of Nazism or fascism was pre Christianity, primitivist in fact. The religiosity imho and intentionality in communism is more likely matrilineal than patriarchal. You simply do not know what you are talking about, Sir! But for certain, ideas do come back around. If you are interested in truth, it is better to look into origins in particular places. Try actually listening with an open mind instead of pronouncing ill informed judgements on content for your consideration 🤨