I suppose it is only fitting that Rowan, who is almost entirely wrong about Christianity, should think Marx is partly right about capitalism. Why not find something positive to say about a man whose ideology has been the inspiration for the most murderous, oppressive and evil regimes in human history. Rowan and Karl even look a bit alike – well Rowan needs to work on the beard. From the Spectator

Face it: Marx was partly right about capitalism
Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that the financial world needs fresh scrutiny and regulation. In our attitude to the market, we run the risk of idolatry

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Fundamentalism is a religious word, not inappropriate to the nature of the problem. Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing reality, power and agency to things that had no life in themselves; he was right about that, if about little else. And ascribing independent reality to what you have in fact made yourself is a perfect definition of what the Jewish and Christian Scriptures call idolatry. What the present anxieties and disasters should be teaching us is to ‘keep ourselves from idols’, in the biblical phrase. The mythologies and abstractions, the pseudo-objects of much modern financial culture, are in urgent need of their own Dawkins or Hitchens. We need to be reacquainted with our own capacity to choose — which means acquiring some skills in discerning true faith from false, and re-learning some of the inescapable face-to-face dimensions of human trust.