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Dean Dettloff
@DeanDettloff
Sessional Lecturer @InsChr - Philosophy/Marxism/Media - Catholic - Co-Host @TheMagnificast - Writing in @americamag @SmashMammon @commonwealmag @GeezMagazine &c
Jul 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Finished the Hillsong doc and I'm once again surprised we haven't had anyone do a materialist analysis of global evangelicalism, tracking the profit flows, property ownership, ideological exchanges, transnational political strategies, etc. Huge project but it's right there. E.g., Rios Montt in Guatemala was part of a church plant out of the Jesus People movement in California; televangelists like Swaggart, Robertson, Falwell, etc. fundraised for right wing dictators in LatAm; evangelicalism is often a conscious wedge into liberation theology.
Mar 24, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Today is the feast day of St. Oscar Romero and the anniversary of his murder, shot in 1980 by US-backed assassins during Mass. The political ramifications of Romero's canonization are still under-appreciated today. His martyrdom indicts the bipartisan history of US foreign policy In 1980, Romero wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, imploring him not to give military aid to the Salvadoran government. Romero was killed about a month later, and the US, under Carter, Reagan, and Bush, gave billions to the regime.
usccb.org/issues-and-act…
Oct 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is a very big deal! Archbishop Gregory will be the first Black American to get a red hat--ever. Pope Francis appointed 13 new cardinals, 9 of which are eligible to vote for the next pope (electors have to be under 80).
Jul 22, 2019 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Fun fact about Hawaii: it was home to one of the most militant communist movements in US history, which broke up a reigning oligarchic hold on the islands. The Democrats sold them out during McCarthyism, giving the Dems a longstanding electoral hegemony. Communists were so entrenched in Hawaii that when Washington was talking about annexing the state, senators were nervous that "statehood for Hawai'i was equivalent to the Moscow politburo's having two votes in the US Senate..." (Gerald Horne, "Fighting in Paradise")
Jul 1, 2018 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
This is a shallow take that no one should read, but it actually is important for the American left to think about Venezuela, if not for the poorly researched and predictable reasons at the @nypost. The basic lesson of Venezuela is that democratic socialism will be constantly under siege by reactionary forces and capital both internally and externally. It matters that socialists expect that and not be naive about clawing power away from people who spend a lot to keep it.
Feb 21, 2018 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Alright let's talk about this New Yorker profile of Peter Sloterdijk and the temptations of being a "celebrity philosopher":
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… There's a lot going on in this piece. You get to learn Sloterdijk is good at biking and also that he thinks Hitler was a "degraded Papist" rather than the progeny of Luther. The profile really draws out the eccentric side of Sloterdijk in an effective way.