Or as the Marquis de Sade said: “In every age one of the primary concerns of kings has been to maintain the dominant religion as one of the political bases that best sustains the throne.”
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Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
"In fact, religion has always been used as a wet blanket for growing labor militancy - in Germany, Spain, Portugal,Italy, Netherlands, France - where 'faith based' (mostly Catholic) labor organizations were deliberately set up to offset the growing popularity of labor unions and mutual associations. These faith based labor organizations embraced a watered-down pro-labor agenda, so they were progressive, but at the same time strongly discouraged militancy and were rabidlyanti-socialist. Not surprisingly, they received support of fascist dictators from Mussolini, to Franco and Salazar."