“Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.” IfsWorldHumansMeanReasonReligiousKnownMoralMaterialsStandardsCapitalismEmpoweringHolinessStrictMaterial WorldHuman Reason Book:Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good
“For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".” MenMeanIndividualReligiousCapitalismGainsRootsAimProfitAgainst Religion Author:Erich Fromm
“All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I think that's because our current religion is capitalism. Capitalism has the functions of patronage, commissions, control of content, bestowing of space, elevation of certain artists over others based on how much they pander to people in power, the determination of value of the work, all of it. Capitalism commissions artwork now, the market.” PeopleThinkingArtArtistValuesReligiousCapitalismDeterminationManipulation Author:Chitra Ganesh
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” MenMindReligiousHighestCapitalismFunctionReasoningWheelsAttributesSmallestAbstractionSkyscraperFountainhead Author:Ayn Rand
“As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.” PersonsSelfMatterStatesBodyLawNaturalReligiousParticularCapitalismConstitutionPaidLipsDoctrineDefinedScopeConstraintsIdeologicalReservedNatural LawLip Service Book:Capistalist Civilisation Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.” SelfFormReligiousBreakCapitalismBasesFavorsJustificationImperialismTransPerniciousSelf Justification Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.” WorldMayChristReligiousOne DayCapitalismHistoricalCurrentsMythologySocialismCommunismContrastUtopiaMessiahEschatology Author:Immanuel Wallerstein