Prophets of Collectivism
A favorite guru for the Religious Left is ordained United Church of Christ minister Walter Brueggemann, a professor emeritus of Old Testament at Presbyterian Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. A critic of "Pharaoh's Production-Consumption Society," i.e. the modern American free market economy, Brueggemann equates capitalism with materialism -- but he ignores coarser materialism of a command and control economy, in which an oppressive state distributes economic benefits according to political calculation.
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