Author(s)

Cai Ming ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Northwest Normal University, Peili Street, Anning District, Lanzhou City, China

Corresponding Author

Cai Ming

ABSTRACT

The relationship between religion and capitalism has been the focus of attention of many philosophers. I will try to illustrate it through the theories of Benjamin, Agamben and others. Capitalism can not only be understood as a secularization of religion according to Weber's idea, but also has the attributes of a religion in itself at an essential level. It can be seen as a religion in itself. Therefore, we must reorganize the relationship between religion and capital, and in the framework of Marxist materialism, we can make a new interpretation of the relationship, the nature of religion and what kind of new relationship with the combination of modern capitalism, and from this relationship to further analyze the nature of the two, and from the framework of Marxism, it can be seen that the key to both religion and capitalism is to the human being. In the framework of Marxism, it can be seen that the key to both religion and capitalism is the domestication of human beings, so we must further understand and criticize them from a Marxist point of view.

KEYWORDS

Criticism of alienation; Marx; Benjamin; Agamben; political theology; capitalism

CITE THIS PAPER

Cai Ming, Religion and Capitalism from the Perspective of Marxism. Philosophy Journal (2024) Vol. 3: 7-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/phij.2024.030102.

REFERENCES

[1] Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion". The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
[2] Guy DeBoer, Landscape Society, Nanjing University Press, May 2017.
[3] Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Sanlian Bookstore, January 2017, p. 171.
[4] Taubers, Paul's Political Theology, East China Normal University Press, January 2016.
[5] Agamben, Blasphemy, Peking University Press, March 2017. 

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