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I don't remember reading that one - will put it on my reading list!

There is no one good resource for marxist analysis but if I had to pick one (anglophone) then it would be Redsails. Frome and Malone are also excellent to follow on twitter too (and also reading old Day threads too as he's taking a break from social media).

Just went through both of them but they both seem to be the opposite of what I am alluding to?

They both appear to convey the problems of capitalism by putting the idea before the material; ie they conceptualise a "religion of capitalism" that provides the ideology (workers in the first video through Calvinism and politican/bankers in the second video through "neoliberalism") that causes the material woes, in the second video they mention "neoliberal priests" in Wall Street and Washington enforcing their religion on the masses.

The above is not marxist (or at best it's the Frankfurt school western variety); it is not dialectical materialist.

The material always comes first. The economic reality produced the material conditions that shaped how calvinism (first video) was interpreted and practised, Calvin's vestiges of feudal apologism was reappropriated for capital in the so-called protestant work ethic (I personally think the latter is a load of nonsense as if Christians of other denominations or non-christians don't have a "work ethic" exemplified by the superexploitation of the Global South - this concept has been popularised by western supremacists self-claimed historians like Nial Ferguson).

Furthemore, in reality the state (supposedly) intervenes to maintain markets in the neoliberal conception of governance because of capital's constraint on governance not the other way round.

Capital has been reified and effectively deified and it is these material constraints of such an economic system that acts as a cultural sieve for any religious or secular practice.

There's a reason why the above distinction is important; one can't solve this through an invidualised (think your way out of it, or the masses think their way out of it) or electoralism (vote for better politicians, have regulations to have better bankers etc) - it requires a systemic change with a dictatorship against capital, getting rid of individuals without changing the dictatorship (for capital to against it) will just mean just that there are new folks who are now constrained by the limits of capital (and any new athiesm then just resolves to the defense of capital - getting rid of religion does not solve the contradictions of capital).

Hope that helped :)