Gareth Owen wrote:
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Marxists say the market inevitably generates inequality and the accumulation
of capital, and even more seriously, commodity production and the day-to-day
activity entailed in buying and selling oneself on the market is the very
ground on which bourgeois ideology grows.[1]
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and
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Followers of the Unification Church[2] believe Reverend Moon is the messiah,
and that all the historical founders of all other religions have recently, in
Heaven, proclaimed Moon's messiahship.
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If the subject of the article was "Marxism" it would be just fine.
Even if the subject of the article was "Marxist views on market
socialism" it would be just fine. But if the subject of the article
was "Market Socialism", it would be difficult to sort it out, and
probably not worth the trouble.
Both camps sincerely hold those beliefs, and I
don't know (or care) enough to
naysay either of them, but, as I understand it, few outside their movements
would give them much creedence. I wouldn't dream of removing the latter, so I
couldn't bring myself to remove the former, either.
Well, let's say that the UC sentence you quoted above was in an
article called "Beliefs about Messiahs" or "Messianic Ideas". Then
it
could be fit in with other things.
But if it was in an article about Christianity, for example, it would be
inappropriate.
--Jimbo