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JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITALISM AND ITS COMPARABILITY PARADISICAL RELIGIONS. PART 2.

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  The quintessential element or aspect of similarity of comparability, is in the fact that neither of their forces or community, will ever achieve their perceived 'end state.' Their nirvana or eurica state or moment. This is not a philosophical position I have come to suddenly or by way of any proverbial 'Saulist conversion.' It is, I believe, the result of time, events, study and analysis.  What has led me to put the proverbial 'pen to paper with this post, is hearing the veteran United States Senator, Bernie Sanders, extolling on his most recent 'anti-capitalist' project, in which he argues that "It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism." Upon having heard that this is BS' most recent offering on what I know to have been a life long campaign of his, and the radical role he has performed in election campaigns in the United State in presidential elections since, say 2000.  I found myself asking me questions I do not have the opportunity to ask

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITALISM AND ITS COMPARABILITY PARADISICAL RELIGIONS. PART 1.

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  So, is there any comparasion between the centuries old struggle of progressive people, especially those in their late teens and late 30s, to defeat 'Capitalism.'   And the more apparently conservative and traditionalists followers of, say the Abrahamic religions who are pursuing the promise of 'a heavenly paradise' after 'the world ends' or their 'Saviour Returns'? The initial, and most probably prejudicial conclusion, is likely to suggest that there is no essentially common ideological similarity or comparability between these apparently 'chalk and cheese' historical protagonists.  That religious people, committed as they are to obeying 'the will of their 'God'' who, according to Christians, are not of this terrestrial world or domain.  Are inherently different from the anti-Capitalist forces who have committed themselves to the probably insurmountable challenge or vocation of 'destroying Capitalism', are inherently dif