“A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.”
Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.
Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
Capitalism as Religion (1921)
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Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.
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Source: "The Masters of Suspicion", p. 85
“I would rather be defeated than make capital out of my religion.”
Source: 1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
“Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.”
Comments on Latin American Debt (15 September 1985) http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1985/19850915
Context: Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 37
“Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 8, Production Function and Theory of Capital, p. 79
Ramakrishna Mission. (1986). Ramakrishna Mission: In search of a new identity.
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One
