[lbo-talk] Zizek mentioned

[C. G. Estabrook]

Interesting as Eagleton is (and he is), he freely admits (e.g., in the preface 
to "After Theory") that he draws on his teacher (and mine) the late Oxford 
theologian Herbert McCabe OP, a Wittgensteinian and Marxist, whose work included 
a consideration of “The Class Struggle and Christian Love”, including the 
following remark:

"What is wrong with capitalism is simply that it is based on human antagonism, 
and it is precisely here that it comes in conflict with Christianity. Capitalism 
is a state of [class] war ... The criticism of [human life and history] that we 
find in the gospel through the tradition of the church inhibits us from a simple 
faith in the power of organized greed to solve human problems, and so we are 
predisposed to accept the commonsense critique of capitalism that socialism has 
provided."

c b wrote:
>    How Atheists Can Use Christianity
>    By Nathan Schneider, The Guardian. 
>    Posted January 5, 2010.
> 
> James Wood, a writer who himself has lived between the tugs of belief
> and unbelief, made an eloquent call in the New Yorker last August for
> "a theologically engaged atheism". Concluding a review of Terry
> Eagleton's recent attack on Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens,
> he imagines something "only a semitone from faith [which] could give a
> brother's account of belief, rather than treat it as some unwanted
> impoverished relative"...