Late Stage Capitalism
A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological Rot.
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This community has its roots in broad-based anti-capitalist thought, with an emphasis on Marxist concepts and analysis and a commitment to antiracism and inclusive feminism.
When it comes to proposed alternatives to Capitalism, it is the general consensus of this community that class-divisions and alienated labour must be abolished; production must be collectively organized by the laborers themselves for the direct benefit of all. We call this socialism.
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It's not really inconsistent for Protestants to directly contradict the Pope (especially when he's right) anyway.
That varies by a lot. The really batshit protestants fled to the colonies back then. The remaining protestant churches tend to be toeing the state line to alright, because they're only losely organized. Because closer organization was exactly the problem that led to their og protestation in the first place.
What is inconsistent is for a lot of them to still call themselves Catholics.
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Thanks I'll be stealing that one for the future :)
Idk, public contradiction, maybe. I know plenty of Catholic (and protestant, for that matter, whose churches forbid it, but are somehow fine with Viagra) women who quietly use birth control and still attend mass/services several times a week.
Yeah I guess people can be culturally Catholic without actually believing in any of the stuff the church says. It's just a place to meet up with the community once every Sunday + holidays. That's probably most denominations of Christians tbh
Maybe; or maybe ideals are easier to have than live. I think some mix is likely, 70/30?
I think a lot of "religious" people living under capitalist modernity are in denial. Even when they want to believe, they can't. It's the curse of bourgeois revolution - all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, etc etc.
Jung and Crowley address this.
Nietzsche too, it's a concept a lot of modern philosophers have had to grapple with. God is dead and we killed Him.
I'm having two seemingly contradictory thoughts that I believe actually reconcile each other: Thus Spake Zarathustra, and What if G-d was one of us, just a slob like one of us...
Eh, even that's surmountable, eg the current pope is illegitimate but the church abides, awaiting a correct pope. The church has survived terrible popes before. So even that isn't a showstopper.
I don't see it. He has primacy, he's the vicar of Christ, he can't be illegitimate by definition. There can't be an incorrect Pope.
Eastern Orthodox can square this circle because they respect papal primacy without papal supremacy, so the Pope is first among equals and the bishop in Rome rather than the Supreme Pontiff of all bishops and churches. Rome can have an incorrect Pope and that doesn't effect their faith or churches, because they have their autonomy.
Roman Catholics are Roman Catholic because they acknowledge papal supremacy. If they reject it, they reject the Church.