I've always said that it was a movement founded in hate and lies. What amazes me is that it parallels so amazingly with the story of Adam and Eve when you stop to think about it. The "female marx" represents the snake, and women everywhere listened to the whispered promises, not hesitating one instant to think of the bigger picture or long-term consequences. Instead, they jumped at the chance for a bite at that apple.
Love this channel. I implore you to have a Marxist apologist or a Liberation Theologian (heretical I know) on your channel in a debate or to clarify the egregious philosophical definitions delivered by some of your guests. The often cringeworthy critique based on surface level cliches, confusing Marxist theory and marxists for enlightenment Liberalism and its practitioners (Progressive Liberals Democrats; conservative liberals Republicans), and limiting readings of Marx’s vast writings to only the manifesto; all do nothing but embolden and even worse alienate those with a Marxist leaning. Praying of the Vespers for example challenges our worldview to dialectically think of an alternative to the status quo (materially and even perhaps metaphysically) through The Magnificat: “He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty”. -Luke 1:52-53 Many interpretations try to spiritualize poverty and wealth, understanding from an idealistic perspective. Luke’s Gospel is very interested in material realities - food and hunger - wealth and poverty - ie physical reality as real in Luke’s world as they are in ours.
I would suggest to you that greed, like all sin, is a disease of the heart. I'd also suggest that to the degree that one is sick, the remedy should be in degree as well. Some will require poverty, while others only need poverty of spirit. There are examples of devout people who were very wealthy, but it was not an impediment to their relationship with God (Job, Abraham, Jacob, David). Others, who were very poor, were impeded quite easily by their love of money (Judas, Gehazi). Another group were very poor and you couldn't have burden them with riches, even if you tried (Elisha, Peter). Moreover, I might suggest that Marxism/liberation theology will never cleanse man's heart of wickedness.
@@clintresler1218 Thank you for your interest. My concern is the inability to view the world from Jesus’s perspective. Reading scripture enables one to see through the hegemony of status quo of this world, something we are conditioned to seeing as ‘the natural order’. Obtuse references to Old Testament characters is a not a justification for wealth. One only needs to view how wealth creates a hegemony in the todays secular world and infects the aspirations and desires of humanity. The material conditions one faces in order to survive can strongly influences their spiritual life. Living like an animal reduces one’s spiritually to that of an animal (Saints aside). Merry Christmas 🎚️
I just listened to the full podcast. This is so interesting and I'd really like to read Gress's book
FINALLY!!!!
...and for all these years I've blamed Geraldo Rivera for our homeless problem.
Rivera sold his soul and is always using deception to try to control a news narrative. Yes, a fake news artist.
Awesome interview! Thank you for your work Dr. Gress
I've always said that it was a movement founded in hate and lies. What amazes me is that it parallels so amazingly with the story of Adam and Eve when you stop to think about it. The "female marx" represents the snake, and women everywhere listened to the whispered promises, not hesitating one instant to think of the bigger picture or long-term consequences. Instead, they jumped at the chance for a bite at that apple.
Marx was the feminist Marx
Love this channel. I implore you to have a Marxist apologist or a Liberation Theologian (heretical I know) on your channel in a debate or to clarify the egregious philosophical definitions delivered by some of your guests.
The often cringeworthy critique based on surface level cliches, confusing Marxist theory and marxists for enlightenment Liberalism and its practitioners (Progressive Liberals Democrats; conservative liberals Republicans), and limiting readings of Marx’s vast writings to only the manifesto; all do nothing but embolden and even worse alienate those with a Marxist leaning.
Praying of the Vespers for example challenges our worldview to dialectically think of an alternative to the status quo (materially and even perhaps metaphysically) through The Magnificat:
“He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
and lifted up the lowly;
he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty”.
-Luke 1:52-53
Many interpretations try to spiritualize poverty and wealth, understanding from an idealistic perspective. Luke’s Gospel is very interested in material realities - food and hunger - wealth and poverty - ie physical reality as real in Luke’s world as they are in ours.
I would suggest to you that greed, like all sin, is a disease of the heart. I'd also suggest that to the degree that one is sick, the remedy should be in degree as well. Some will require poverty, while others only need poverty of spirit. There are examples of devout people who were very wealthy, but it was not an impediment to their relationship with God (Job, Abraham, Jacob, David). Others, who were very poor, were impeded quite easily by their love of money (Judas, Gehazi). Another group were very poor and you couldn't have burden them with riches, even if you tried (Elisha, Peter). Moreover, I might suggest that Marxism/liberation theology will never cleanse man's heart of wickedness.
@@clintresler1218 Thank you for your interest. My concern is the inability to view the world from Jesus’s perspective. Reading scripture enables one to see through the hegemony of status quo of this world, something we are conditioned to seeing as ‘the natural order’.
Obtuse references to Old Testament characters is a not a justification for wealth. One only needs to view how wealth creates a hegemony in the todays secular world and infects the aspirations and desires of humanity.
The material conditions one faces in order to survive can strongly influences their spiritual life. Living like an animal reduces one’s spiritually to that of an animal (Saints aside).
Merry Christmas 🎚️