Wiltshire Church patently serves
a class of capitalist society that reinforces the individualistic posture and management style of the church.
If we are to live faithfully and in right relationship, what does this mean for our participation in the middle
class of a capitalist society?
Not exact matches
«No one wants to say it, no one's proud
of it, but this is a
capitalist society, a
capitalist system, with
capitalist rules, and my investors expect me to maximize profits, not to minimize them, go half, or go 70 percent, but to go to 100 percent
of the profit curve we're all taught in MBA
class.»
We have said that
capitalist society produces a structure
of antagonistic
classes.
I believe that a careful investigation
of the
class structure
of our
capitalist society would persuade us that Peace is not attainable at the human level
of experience without Justice.
Only by overcoming the
class structure
of society will love and reconciliation become just, And there is no way to overcome the
class structure produced by
capitalist production except to assume the
class struggle
of those exploited by the system.
And
of course that
class has imbibed the values
of the
capitalist consumerist
society too much to bring about a new
society embodying values
of personal freedom, social justice and ecological wholeness by themselves any more.
In particular, the determining factor in the evolution
of society is the
class struggle — the inevitable conflict between the exploiters and the exploited, the
capitalists who own the tools
of production and the workers who use them.
Since in
capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part
of the working
class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling
classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one
of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.
In asking Labour / former Labour supporters
of their views on a number
of issues they categorised those supporters by asking, «Which
of the following do you think best reflects that the Labour Party should stand for»: «anti
capitalist»; «representing the working
class»; «building a fairer
society».