lo so che per scopi polemici fin qui ho privilegiato il Marx che vede nel capitalismo un fattore progressivo che fa piazza pulita delle antiche dipendenze e catene (è effettivamente così basta guardarsi il Manifesto del Partito Comunista)
ora Diego Fusaro ne dà una lettura più o meno opposta che si concentra sull'aristotelismo dell'oikonomia contrapposta alla crematistica accumulatrice e al metron (la misura) contrapposta all'apeiron, all'illimitato, alla "cattiva infinità" (tutte cose che Fusaro ha ripreso dall'interpretazione di Aristotele e Hegel data da Costanzo Preve)
ora di questo Marx moraleggiante vorrei però sottolineare un elemento secondo me ancora più importante (nella creazione della religione marxista così come storicamente è apparsa da metà Ottocento oggi):
da Michael Löwy - Liberation Theology Marxism (riportato anche qui)
As a result of the ethical radicalism of their anti-capitalism, Christian socialists have often proved more sensitive to the social catastrophes created by ‘really existing modernity’ in Latin America and by the logic of the ‘development of under-development’ (to use André Gunder Frank’s well-known expression) than many Marxists, enmeshed in a purely economic ‘developmentalist’ logic. For example, the ‘orthodox’ Marxist ethnologist Otavio Guilherme Velho has severely criticized the Brazilian progressivist Church for ‘regarding capitalism as an absolute evil’ and opposing the capitalist transformation of agriculture, which is a vector of progress, in the name of the pre-capitalist traditions and ideologies of the peasantry.
Since the end of the 1970s, another theme has played an increasing role in the Marxist reflection of some Christian thinkers: the elective affinity between the Biblical struggle against idols and the Marxist critique of commodity fetishism. The articulation of the two in liberation theology has been facilitated by the fact that Marx himself often use Biblical images and concepts in his critique of capitalism.
Baal, the Golden Calf, Mammon, Moloch - these are some of the ‘theological metaphors’ of which Marx makes ample use in Capital and other economic writings, in order to denounce the spirit of capitalism as an idolatry of money, commodities, profit, the market or capital itself, in a language directly inspired by the Old Testament prophets. The stock exchange is often referred to as the ‘Temple of Baal’ or ‘Mammon’. The most important concept of the Marxist critique of capitalism is itself a ‘theological metaphor’, referring to idolatry: fetishism.




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