Lisa Marie Blair

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So-Called Religions

A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.”

— Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism as Religion” 

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    theearthspins

    Religion answers the unanswerable. Capitalism does not. Walter Benjamin was a philosopher and an idealist, the combination of the two made him unqualified to have an educated discussion.

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