Christian Order and Racial Order: What Cedric Robinson Can Teach Us
Cedric Robinson’s work presents an unavoidable challenge to socialists and leftists. Assumptions of theological and political “order” that determine how we think about class and race must be dismantled.
Set It Off
Across America, new and militant forms of solidarity are emerging, now that the ugly face of racial capitalism and police brutality are laid bare.
Anti-Capitalism Needs More Than Christian Virtues
Without a coherent political theory rooted in material realities, a Christian politics of virtue ends up accommodating capitalism, rather than ending capitalism’s systemic harms.
The Radical King Against Bourgeois Christianity
King embodied a messianic religion which sought to unveil the state of emergency in American life. His call for a radical restructuring of social power afflicted — and continues to afflict — the fantasies of white bourgeois Christianity.
Žižek and the Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Žižek rightly contends that Christianity is perverse. But by absorbing Christianity into Hegelian categories, he mistakes the perversion of contemporary Christianity under the rule of the commodity form for the original perversion of Christianity: the crucified God.
The Left Side of the Church: Liberation Theology’s Legacy
Liberation theology — in its refusal of a consensual and unacceptable status quo, and patient and reflective militancy on the side of the downtrodden — has an important contribution still to make.
Liberation Spirituality for a Global Pandemic
Liberation spirituality is a call to care for our bodies, the bodies of others and the social body. It places us on the path to finding the concrete practices of genuine spirituality within the struggle for socialist justice, rather than outside it.
Why Consumerism is Not the Problem: Reshaping Desire from the Bottom Up
Desire is not easily changed, and moralizing or sermonizing will not effectively transform neoliberal, consumerist desire. Alternative desire emerges in the “underside” of history where God is active in organized religious and social movements.
Herbert McCabe: The Class Struggle and Christian Love
For a limited time, we are republishing Herbert McCabe’s seminal essay on class struggle and Christianity. It remains an exemplary artifact of Christian-Marxist dialogue, a dialogue which remains essential today.
Revolutionary Pessimism: The Worst is Yet to Come
Ours is a situation that cannot rely on the abstract comforts of “optimism” or “hope.” Instead, we need what Peter Fleming calls a “revolutionary pessimism” that weaponizes our unhappiness to perceive “in this decomposing world both a taste of things to come and a way out.”