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pure_temper posted...

And you know what else exists outside the US? At the local level, without requiring income to survive or function or spread? Religions. And that's imo where Marx was wrong - we need to leverage religion to spread worker solidarity and progressive values, that's the point of my sig. We do need to empower all minds on earth, including those outside the US or Europe or etc.

This is actually a good post. One reason American Evangelicals often buy into bootstraps is a misapplication of the parable of the talents which was popularized I believe by the Puritans.

Also, Paul talks about if one does not work he should not eat, except that verse was explicitly talking about apostles and people like Paul doing the work of the church being fed for doing that.
That is, it is taken out of context where the verse prior he says he took no one's food for free but labored as an apostle to be worthy of it.