• «Globalization» has become a synonym for capitalism in some circles, including Christians not yet fully weaned from the excitements of
Marxist class struggle.
Not exact matches
Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in
Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «
class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.
Because he is a dedicated
Marxist as well as a famous geneticist, Lewontin saw the conflict between creation and evolution as a
class struggle, with history inevitably awarding the victory to the naturalistic
class.
The basic distinction that is pressed in all of these attempts to separate «true» from «false» liberation is that the former is based on gospel values, while the latter is overly dependent on Karl Marx and a
Marxist analysis of the world, especially in relation to Marx's theory of
class struggle.
This
class struggle, let it quickly be said, is not the one that
Marxists still fantasy about, proletariat pitted against bourgeoisie, the wretched of the earth rising against their oppressors.
Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the
Marxist idea of the present morality of
class - war leading to the necessary love of the
class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued
struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.
When
Marxist analysis is used, the person necessarily assumes all the content of
Marxist ideology, including the
Marxist concept of truth, ethics,
class struggle the use of violence and atheism.
One could add that they are analogues to the Christian ethic of law of nature, to the liberal ethic of individual freedom and to the
Marxist law of
class struggle.
One could add that they analogous to the Christian ethic of law of nature, to the Liberal ethic of individual freedom and to the
Marxist law of
class -
struggle.