Author Archives: Anthony Mansueto
Matter Strikes Back: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind (Marx and Engels 1848/1978. Virtual … Continue reading
Which Political Theology? Understanding the Deep Structure of Ripening Being
There is no more pressing question for humanity in the present period than that of the failure of the revolutions which began in the Enlightenment to make good on their promise of liberation. Liberalism, which promised to all the freedom … Continue reading
Why Theory?
Since I published the first the Preface Against Capital: The Current Crisis and the Crisis in Theory I have realized that there is one point that I did not make fully clear. This is, perhaps, because it is so obvious … Continue reading
The Shadow of Empire: Radical Orthodoxy and the Limits of Any Possible Christian Socialism
The third tendency in contemporary political theology which we need to address —Radical Orthodoxy— seems at first to be very different in both its sources and its aims. Where the Dark Enlightenment melds hierarchical traditionalism with right accelerationist technological disruption … Continue reading
Dark Liberation
When interest in political theology began to emerge on the Christian Left and Center Left in the 1960s, those engaging the discipline were at pains to distinguish not just their specific theological positions but their entire set of questions and … Continue reading
Theology Has Escaped
Theology has, it appears, escaped. What was once a respectable, architectonic, but also tightly regulated discipline which exercised its office in an almost hidden manner, her charms accessible only to the most discerning, and her relationships mediated and her conversations … Continue reading
Against Capital: The Current Crisis and the Crisis in Theory
This is the first installment of what I expect will be a very long-running serialization of my Summa Theologiae et Politicae: Against Capital. This will be my major systematic work and, over the course of what will likely be several volumes … Continue reading
Stay the Course: Why the Popular Front is Permanent and Why Maximalism is Always a Mistake
Introduction As we celebrate the victory of the Democratic Party in the 2020 US General Election —and the end of the disastrous Trump government— it is important to be clear regarding what has and what has not changed —not because … Continue reading
What is at Stake in the 2020 US General Election?
As the 2020 US General Election approaches, the United States and the world stand at a crossroads, faced with a decision which may well be the most momentous in their history. It is a choice between freedom and slavery, fascism … Continue reading
Pandemic Reflections: Civilizational Transitions and Political Strategy
Capital, like all gods, believes itself to be immaterial, a purely formal, autonomous intelligence operating in accord with inexorable laws which which always and everywhere maximize accumulation, which terminates in a point at which it becomes infinitely productive and utterly … Continue reading