... or at least include an inanimate man made devil that is predominantly malevolent. Before no such "devil" of this type existed for them. Taussig theorises the reason for this fetishised evil is caused by the alienation inherent with capitalist economies. Simply put, market dominated societies are oppressive, anti-human relational, compared to market organized societies that operate on the principle of ... solely Marxist interpretations that Taussig may have injected in his work. He critiques the functionalists, Durkheim and "neo-Durkheimians" as having a "naive objective idealism"(p.9) say...

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... hard work that is luck. We are not responsible for our qualities they were given to us by God. Capitalism is a system of devil; Christianity is the root of all evil because we love money. We celebrate Jesus birthday by going shopping and we can never figure out what to buy people because they already have everything. Communism is a godly system ... common good. It shall take seven generations to get rid of the sin by parents. We are not fundamentally economic creatures. We care about social acceptance. We work for status symbols like cars, clothes and looking good and in style. The typi...

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