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Tag: Consumption

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” 

Format StatusPosted on June 27, 2021June 27, 2021Categories CommonplaceTags Anxiety, Capitalism, Consumption, Human condition, Religion, Walter Benjamin1 Comment on So-Called Religions
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