Giovanni Dall'Orto 🇮🇹 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 Profile picture
Militante #gay. Storico. Compagno. Antifascista. Ex giornalista. Nonviolento. Provvisoriamente vivente. Pro-Palestinians, anti-Hamas and all religious fanatics
Feb 4 9 tweets 2 min read
Now that the end of the "#woke" season is approaching, it becomes easier to analyse it in a way that only three years ago would have earned us a ban from Twitter.
The most evident aspect is its character of a sobstitute for religion, in a situation in which legacy religions 1. in the Usa are losing ground year after year. Leaving an empty space, because the dominant lay philosophy, neoliberalism, has no room for moral or social issues. Allegedly, "the market" will give a just answer to all social issues.
Which patently it is not doing. 2.
Aug 19, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
I beg to differ. #Atheism just says there is no god. That's all. The rest is politics.

Marx is often misquoted as saying that "religion is the opium of the people". But the full quote says: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and 1. soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness".
Quite a difference.

30 years ago Marxism, "the god that failed", as Koestler defined it, disappeared from the 2.