THIS ECONOMY KILLS (EG, N. 53): THEOLOGICAL CRITICAL OF UNFEASIBLE CAPITALISM

Abstract

The text analyses the socioeconomic and political dimension of mo­dernity. Modernity has its driving force in the capitalist system. No interpretation of modernity can disregard capitalism. Its infeasibility will be shown through a critical study of its essential elements: unlimited accumulation of capital/wealth, exploitation of human labor and the devastation of nature; as well as its theoretical framework (liberalism) and the role of the State. This approach will serve as the base for a theological reading of the infeasibility of capitalism.