That's why any kind of authoritarianism is dangerous - it's not the specific beliefs, it's the process, and the fact that it sets the emotional template for relationships in later life.

One of the biggest issues in the west is that after three hundred years of secularism the political power of the churches has been substantially diminished.

But aside from the partial efforts of Marx, who was basically a frustrated industrialist, there has been no equivalent on-the-nail critique of industrial capitalism.

It's not that one isn't possible (probably), it's that it's so easy to distract progressives into minor side oppressions, and lose focus on the bigger picture.