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Global Capitalism
and the Queen of
Babylon:
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Capitalism is the
world's first
globally
All things
influential life
therefore
system (a
whatsoever ye
secular religion)
would that men in which the
should do unto
Golden Rule is
you, even so do seen as either
ye also unto
socially
them: for this is destructive or, at
the law and the the very least,
prophets. (Mat
unnecessary.
7:12)
"Love thy
neighbor" is
Thou shalt love
viewed as
the Lord thy God unnecessary
with all thy heart, because capitalist
and with all thy
society advances
soul, and with all and prospers
thy mind. This is through selfthe first and great serving voluntary
commandment.
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marketplace
exchanges. On
the other hand,
some of the most
clever and
influential
promoters of
Babylon's moneybased
commercial
system, such as
Owe no one
Bernard
anything, except Mandeville,
to love one
Ludwig Mises,
another; for the Friedrich Hayek
one who loves
and Ayn Rand,
another has
actually argue
fulfilled the law. that the principle
The
of "love thy
commandments, neighbor" is bad
You shall not
for society at
commit adultery; large.
You shall not
murder; You shall Hayek wrote, It
not steal; You
may be asked
shall not covet; how restraints on
and any other
instinctual
commandment, demands serve to
are summed up coordinate the
in this word,
activities of larger
Love your
numbers. As an
neighbor as
example,
yourself. Love
continued
does no wrong to obedience to the
a neighbor;
command to treat
therefore, love is all men as
the fulfilling of the neighbours would
law.
have prevented
(Romans 13:8the growth of an
10)
extended order.
For those now
This is my
living within the
commandment, extended order
That ye love one gain from not
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another, as I
have loved you.
(John 15:12)
treating one
another as
neighbours, and
by applying, in
their interactions,
The Bride of
rules of the
Christ lives by extended order
the
such as those of
commandment several property
of,
and contract instead of the
"Thou shalt rules of solidarity
love the Lord and altruism. An
thy God with all order in which
thy heart...
everyone treated
and thy
his neighbour as
neighbor as himself would be
thyself."
one where
comparatively
few could be
fruitful and
multiply.
Friedrich Hayek,
The Fatal Conceit,
page 13.
The Great
Harlot of
Babylon lives
by the
commandment
of,
"Thou shalt
love the world
with all thy
heart,
and yourself
more than
anybody else."
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Capitalism
promotes
But they that will maximum
be rich fall into
freedom for
temptation and a markets and
snare, and into
merchants and
many foolish and relentlessly
hurtful lusts,
transforms
which drown men anything and
in destruction and everything into
perdition. For
commodities to
the love of
be bought and
money is the
sold in the
root of all evil: marketplace.
which while some
coveted after,
The primary
they have erred commodity of the
from the faith,
global
and pierced
marketplace is
themselves
money itself, and
through with
those within the
many sorrows.
global financial
(1Ti 6:9-10)
matrix find that
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the pursuit of
money becomes
necessary for
survival itself,
while capital
accumulation
becomes the
basis of the whole
investmentdriven scheme.
Indeed, within a
capitalist system
the "love of
money"
becomes the
foundation of
society, and
from this root all
kinds of various
evils bear fruit.
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Luxury.
Employ'd a Million of
the Poor,
And odious Pride a
Million more
Envy it self, and
Vanity
Were Ministers of
Industry;
Their darling Folly,
Fickleness
In Diet, Furniture,
and Dress,
That strange,
ridic'lous Vice, was
made
The very Wheel, that
turn'd the Trade.
Bernard Mandeville, the
"Mastermind" of early
Capitalism
from The Fable of the
Bees: or Private Vices,
Public Benefits, (1714),
in which Mandeville
argues that sin,
wickedness, and all
manner of social vices
are actually good for
society simply because
they promote
commerce
Lust, Lust,
Pride:
And these are
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Capitalism
depends upon the
continually
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expanding
production and
consumption of
commodities.
When this cycle
starts to slow
down we get
anxious and call it
a "recession," and
when it reverses
we panic and call
it a "depression."
The commodities
that drive the
engine of global
For, as I have
capitalism are
often told you
primarily
before and now marketed by
tell you again
appealing to
even with tears, mankind's carnal
many live as
desires, as
enemies of the
marketing expert
cross of Christ.
Ernest Dichter
Their destiny is
(1907-1991) was
destruction, their keen to point out:
god is their
"One of the basic
stomach, and
problems of this
their glory is in
[American]
their shame.
Their mind is set prosperity, then,
on earthly things. is to give people
the sanction and
But our
justification to
citizenship is in
enjoy it and to
heaven...
(Philippians 3:17- demonstrate the
hedonistic
20)
approach to his
Love not the
life is a moral,
world, neither the not an immoral,
things that are in one. This
the world. If any permission given
man love the
to the consumer
world, the love of to enjoy his life
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daily grind of
mere survival,
or seducing
them into the
spiritually
hollow pursuits
of money,
selfish lusts,
and pride.
"This is a world in
which the neoliberal
ethic of intense
possessive
individualism can
become the template
for human personality
socialization. The
impact is increasing
individualistic
isolation, anxiety, and
neurosis in the midst
of one of the greatest
social achievements
(at least judging by
its enormous scale
and all-embracing
character) ever
constructed in human
history
for the realization of
our hearts desire."
Anti-Capitalist professor David
Harvey
Rebel Cities: From the Right to
the City to the Urban
Revolution, 2012, kindle
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Because thou
sayest, I am rich,
and increased
with goods, and
have need of
nothing; and
knowest not that
thou art
wretched, and
miserable, and
poor, and blind,
and naked. (Rev
3:17)
"Our enormously
productive
For this ye know, economy
that no
demands that we
whoremonger,
make
nor unclean
consumption our
person, nor
way of life, that
covetous man,
we convert the
who is an
buying and use of
idolater, hath any goods into rituals,
inheritance in the that we seek our
kingdom of Christ spiritual
and of God. (Eph satisfactions, our
5:7)
ego satisfactions,
in consumption.
But godliness
The measure of
with
social status, of
contentment is social acceptance,
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"The parallelism
between economic
laissez-faire and
Darwinianism... is
now seen ... to be
very close indeed.
Just as Darwin
invoked sexual love,
acting through sexual
selection... so the
individualist invokes
the love of money,
acting through the
pursuit of profit, as
an adjutant to natural
selection, to bring
about the production
on the greatest
possible scale of what
is most strongly
desired as measured
by exchange value."
John Maynard Keynes
The End of Laissez-Faire
(1926)
Competition:
One of the
From whence
foundations of a
come wars and
"successfully
fightings among functioning"
you? Come they capitalist society
not hence, even is competition.
of your lusts that The altruistic
war in your
ethic of "people
members? Ye
working together"
lust, and have
that is formed in
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the family is
discarded in favor
of the
competitive
individualistic
ethic of "every
man for himself."
This is great for
the rich and
powerful who
have the
resources to win
this global
competition, but
not so good for
the people at the
bottom:
"...increasing
competition
within the
informal sector
depletes social
capital and
dissolves selfhelp networks
For, brethren, ye and solidarities
have been called essential to the
unto liberty; only survival of the
use not liberty for very poor... An
an occasion to the NGO worker in
flesh, but by
Haiti, Yolette
love serve one Etienne,
another. For all describes the
the law is fulfilled ultimate logic of
in one word, even neoliberal
in this; Thou shalt individualism in a
love thy
context of
neighbour as
absolute
thyself. But if ye immiseration:
bite and devour 'Now
one another, take everything is
heed that ye be for sale. The
not consumed
woman used to
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one of another.
receive you with
This I say then, hospitality, give
Walk in the Spirit, you coffee, share
and ye shall not all that she had in
fulfill the lust of her home. I could
the flesh.
go get a plate of
(Gal 5:13-16)
food at a
neighbor's house;
a child could get a
coconut at her
grandmother's,
two mangoes at
another aunt's.
But these acts of
solidarity are
disappearing with
the growth of
poverty. Now
when you arrive
somewhere,
either the woman
offers to sell you
a cup of coffee or
she has no coffee
at all. The
tradition of
mutual giving
that allowed us to
help each other
and survive - this
is all being lost.'"
Mike Davis,
Planet of Slums,
2006, kindle
edition, location
4269
"Many decent
people are locked
into the embrace
of a system that
is rotten to the
core. If they are
to earn even a
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reasonable living
they have no
other job option
except to give the
devil his due...
The coercive
laws of
competition
force us all, to
some degree,
to obey the
rules of this
ruthless and
uncaring
system." David
Harvey, Rebel
Cities, 2012,
kindle, location
3059
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listen to what I
am saying and
buy from me! I
have some
heavenly
commodities
that you
desperately
need!"
purchase of some
luxury product,
but which end up
being traded back
and forth as
valued
collectibles in
their own right,
reflect a mystical
self-abandonment
And the
to commodity
merchants of the transcendence.
earth shall weep Those who collect
and mourn over the trinkets that
her; for no man have been
buyeth their
manufactured for
merchandise any the sole purpose
more: The
of being collected
merchandise of
are accumulating
gold, and silver, commodity
and precious
indulgences
stones, and of
glorious tokens of
pearls, and fine the commodity's
linen, and purple, real presence
and silk, and
among the
scarlet, and all
faithful. Reified
thyine wood, and people proudly
all manner
display the proofs
vessels of ivory, of their intimacy
and all manner
with the
vessels of most commodity. Like
precious wood,
the old
and of brass, and religious
iron, and marble, fetishism, with
And cinnamon,
its convulsory
and odours, and raptures and
ointments, and
miraculous
frankincense, and cures, the
wine, and oil, and fetishism of
fine flour, and
commodities
wheat, and
generates its
beasts, and
own moments
sheep, and
of fervent
horses, and
exaltation. All
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chariots, and
this is useful for
slaves, and souls only one purpose:
of men. And the producing
fruits that thy
habitual
soul lusted after submission." Guy
are departed
Debord, The
from thee, and all Society of the
things which were Spectacle, 1967,
dainty and goodly kindle, location
are departed
928
from thee, and
"It is possible to
thou shalt find
them no more at think of
consumption as
all. The
an expression of
merchants of
individualism and
these things,
which were made self-worship. We
rich by her, shall could believe that
stand afar off for the primary
religious focus of
the fear of her
torment, weeping modern life is the
and wailing... for ego and see
consumption as
thy merchants
one of the ways
were the great
men of the earth; in which the self
gathers
for by thy
sorceries were worshippers
my car, my
all nations
deceived. (Rev house, my
computer.
18:11-15, 23)
Consumption can
be seen as the
means whereby
the individual
realises the
wishes and
ambitions of the
self as end. For
many years I
accepted that
view but,
although it
contains
important
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insights, I think it
has been
overtaken. In the
dynamics of our
culture,
consumption has
now become the
dominant faith
and
individualism,
together with
other subordinate
commitments,
serves it.
Consumption is
collectivistindividualist,
nationalistinternationalist,
the healer, the
entertainer, the
lover, the
spiritual, the
feeder and the
consolation. It is
the chief rival
to God in our
culture." Alan
Storkey,
"Postmodernism
Is Consumption,"
from Christ and
Consumerism:
Critical reflections
on the spirit of
our age, Edited
by Craig
Bartholomew and
Thorsten Moritz,
2000, page 100.
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commodity has
succeeded in totally
colonizing social life.
Commodification is
not only visible, we
no longer see
anything else; the
world we see is the
world of the
commodity... The
society's entire sold
labor has become a
total commodity
whose constant
turnover must be
maintained at all
cost."
Anti-Capitalist philosopher Guy
Debord
The Society of the Spectacle,
(1967) kindle edition, location
698
Urbanization:
Urbanization is
Prepare slaughter directly related to
for his children
the rise of the
for the iniquity of market economy
their fathers; that of capitalism.
they do not rise, When the land
nor possess the itself becomes a
land, nor fill the commodity and is
face of the
acquired and
world with
accumulated into
cities. (Isaiah
the hands of the
14:21 - Judgment wealthy few then
against the end- rural folk are
times Antichrist often forced from
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'King of Babylon'
- Isaiah 14 is the
parallel to Rev.
18)
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riches... By the
population
multitude of thy growth, which is
merchandise they expected to peak
have filled the
at about 10 billion
midst of thee with in 2050." Mike
violence, and
Davis, Planet of
thou hast sinned Slums, 2006,
Thou hast defiled kindle edition,
thy sanctuaries
location 64
by the multitude
of thine iniquities, The mass
by the iniquity of urbanization that
is part and parcel
thy traffick...
(Ezekiel 28:2,4- of the triumph of
global capitalism
5,16)
is a way to
Woe to [Ninevah] domesticate and
the city of blood, control the
full of lies, full of masses,
plunder, never
maximizing the
without victims! value of their
...all because of labor through
the wanton lust of wage slavery,
a harlot, alluring, turning them into
the mistress of
obedient
sorceries, who
consumers, and
enslaved nations caging them in
by her
close quarters.
prostitution and The merchants
peoples by her
think they come
witchcraft. "I am out on top in this
against you,"
game, but the
declares the
vast majority of
LORD Almighty... humanity loses.
You have
In the end,
increased the
despite the rise of
number of your material comforts
merchants till
that global
they are more
capitalism has
than the stars of brought us, the
the sky, but like hidden spiritual
locusts they strip costs have been
the land and then far too great.
fly away."
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Peter Goodgame
February 10, 2013
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