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Jamaica, known for its rich cultural heritage, reggae music, and stunning landscapes, is also home to a diverse array of tropical fruits that define itsteleSURenglish
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in reply to hex • • •There's also an argument to be made that Dulcinians and Diggers were not just right in their understanding of the objectives of Christianity, but were actually carrying forward in the footsteps *of the original churches*. One can argue that Christianity was originally a radical proto-libertarian socialist movement aimed at overthrowing a colonial dictatorship.
Constantine saw a political opportunity to subvert this movement by controlling the Bible, and took it in order to save the Roman state that it *existed to topple.* The appropriation of these ideas by the chief oppressor, even as he continued worship Apollo until his death bed, led to the lineage of "christian" states that picked up the behavior of Rome under the name of the Church.
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in reply to hex • • •Socialists tend to want to avoid religion as a topic beyond "it's a problem" and "it must be destroyed." But as Dawn of Everything points out, property is itself a religious assertion. The "stuff fedishism" (using the full weight of entomology here) that allows people to control other people through things and the idea of ownership of ideas is itself a kind of religious magic.
Even Marxist arguments about property are fundamentally engaging in a religious debate that operates within the framework of the dominant religion. Christian rejections of property are at least as valid, if not more so by the fact that they are at least honest in their grounding.
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in reply to hex • • •Just so I don't go too far down this Rabbit Hole without also paying appropriate respect to Muslim comrades, it's also worth recognizing that if we follow this logic then the socialist elements of Islam are, perhaps, more true to what Christianity set out to do before being appropriated by the Romans. In this way, and in its actual wars against those who picked up the Roman banner, there are parts of Islam that remain more true to Jesus than Christianity itself even when one assumes a Christian frame of reference.
But there's worthwhile radicalism all over, and it's worth acknowledging and respecting. I'm not religious anymore (at least not in a way most people recognize), but I've also grown past the knee-jerk rejection of religion that I developed as a response to religious trauma. We have a lot of comrades if we can learn to respect them.
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in reply to hex • • •The entire concept of the labor theory of value is a theological debate about the nature of the god of property. Marx's arguments against capitalism were operating within the religious paradigm of property fedishism. An equally valid response to the religious assertion that property allows people to control other people is just "nah, I don't believe in that shit."
No greater argument is needed, because the assertion of the property fedishists is itself founded on nothing and can therefore be rejected with nothing.
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in reply to hex • • •Also, why is it all these evangelicals want to interpret everything literally, except Matthew 16:28? Take that with 1 Corinthians 12:27, and suddenly shit gets really interesting. Basically it would mean that "the second coming" is actually the church itself, but only insomuch as it behaves as a conscious being (as a literal body, sharing all things in common, etc) that behaves as "the Christ" (as described in Acts 4:32).
Put that in a pamphlet and see what happens.
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in reply to hex • • •Seriously, if you tidy up some of the Leveller speeches at the Putney Debates, you realise we lost 200 years of socialist democracy without realising.
Which is why you never find it in history education …
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in reply to hex • • •For reference: youtu.be/kba3K_gGEog
I did know about them, but didn't actually have a ton of depth. This really hits hard given that I've been reading Dawn of Everything, which starts by talking about this time period. Basically, they took the indigenous critiques that led to the enlightenment full on.
Mike Duncan's Revolutions - 1.12b - Supplemental The Diggers
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in reply to hex • • •Merdezuth - The World Turned Upside Down (Diggers Song)
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in reply to hex • • •Obligatory musical link thanks to Billy Bragg ("The World Turned Upside Down"):
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Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down
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