We were not Marxists but accepted a lot of
Marxist social analysis.
This defect shows up in the very methods of
Marxist social analysis, not just in its assessment of particular phenomena.
Not exact matches
Its
social, political and economic
analyses are often admittedly
Marxist, but I found no one among its leadership, at least in Nicaragua, who wished to baptize Marxism or to merge Christianity and communism.
It is a matter of personal confession that Whitehead's metaphysics, via process theology, the
Marxist analysis of capitalism, via Latin American
social analysis, and Biblical study, via the theology of liberation, have jointly served to flesh out a vision of reality in which the divine call to socialist revolution has been confirmed and rendered fully compelling.
Generalization is dangerous here too, but it is safe to say that liberation theology is characterized by an emphasis on the experience of oppression and a
Marxist - inspired
social analysis that divides society into oppressor and oppressed.
When the plane lands on the field of the
analysis of the
social system, we may find that both the
Marxist analysis of history and Whitehead's metaphysics require modification in light of each other.
There is in Revelation 18 (again following the lead of Mottu»») an implicit
social critique which can be analyzed under the
Marxist categories of religion as distress and protest.34 Latent in the liturgical form of this passage there is a primitive or «savage» political
analysis of the Roman Empire.
The collapse of the
Marxist paradigm offers reason to hope that the costs of this misbegotten form of
social analysis will not continue to be borne by the poor.
The focus of the discussion was the use of
social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and
Marxist analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.
To call it
Marxist I would like to see an element of collective ownership of the means of production, or historical determinism, or class
analysis, or something else that is distinctly
Marxist — these are idle thoughts, of course, since your average right - wing drone doesn't know economic /
social theory from a hole in the ground.
After all,
Marxist analysis at its most mundane level is just the study of
social evolution solely in terms of economic factors.