About this ebook
What is Mammon? It's the demon or devil of wealth and materialism, opposed to spirituality and "holy poverty". Or it's wealth itself, regarded as a false idol of worship and devotion, as an evil, seductive and debasing influence. The Cave of Mammon is the abode of the deity of wealth, full of the most desirable objects in the world, all the wealth that anyone could want.
Mammon can corrupt anyone, even the Muses, the goddesses of the arts. Poor artists are vain and can be bought. It's easy. Everyone has their price. Mammon knows each person's "number", the price for which they will sell their soul.
Matthew (6:24) was wrong. You can serve God and Mammon, if Mammon IS your God, which he invariably is.
There's no evidence that the average person in the West pays much attention to God if "God" differs from Mammon. Mammon is altogether different. Average people are consumed by Mammon. He's never out of their thoughts. They go to sleep thinking about him, and wake up ready to do his bidding. He shapes them, he defines them. He's their first cause, their efficient cause, their final cause. He's their motivation, their purpose, what they labor for and aspire to. The American Dream is the Dream of Mammon.
Wouldn't you like to live in a different world, one not ruled by Mammon? It's time to shut down Mammon's power.
This book is directed against the economic platform of Mammonism, namely predatory free-market capitalism, the basis of globalization. How can capitalism be tamed? How can it serve the people rather than rapacious, psychopathic elites?
This is a book about social capitalism rather than the anti-social capitalism that currently prevails. The job of social capitalism is to give everyone in the system a fair deal and an equal opportunity to succeed.
En route, the controversial topic of left wing Nazism is explored. What if, on the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazi left wing had eradicated Hitler and the Nazi right wing, rather than the other way around? How much would history have changed? Would the Nazis have gradually dropped their nationalism and racism and evolved into a movement resembling the radical left wing Jacobins of the French Revolution?
The predatory capitalists - the 1%, the super rich elite, the Ownership Class - will do anything to prevent social capitalism from succeeding. They are the Mammonists. They are the enemies of humanity. When will the world call time on their reign of error?
About the author
Mark Romel writes about reality, unreality, hyperreality, surreality. Is humanity mad? Does it have a reality principle, or a fantasy principle?
