CARL SCHMITT AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY WITH RICHARD SUDWORTH 

@Mikey Mc tigue Only of some sects, not all.

My understanding of Lenins philosophy is that the Party is understood as the divine authority on all matters concerning the revolution as it leads the working class in the class struggle. That could explain the strong strangehold held by the Chinese Communist party over the country and political life.

@Accelerationist That is what I believe too. But still, they are faithful to some previous principles, including their relationship to anything spiritual or religious seeing as poison to the mind.

@Accelerationist Kinda, more like neutral - some with traditional and conservative vibes had close ties with conservative versions of religion or at least put front of being on good terms (not only Franco, Salazar, Pinochet ... You can count here current Putin as well), others were in the other side of spectrum, Hitler - was actually anti-christian in secret but with occultistic vibes. Communists , all sorts of them were absolutelly vocal in antireligious stance. Not pasdively “secular” in terms of leaning, more like actively anti-religious.

The Chinese Communist Party acts more like a quasi-fascist (in the original sense of the word referring to the fusion of state and the corporate) than a communist party. This happened during the Deng Xiaoping era which was the reason why the West believed China would be accepted in the international community with open arms. The West is realizing they made the wrong bet as it is still authoritarian. The CCP under Xi is increasingly becoming more involved in the meddling of their mercantile sectors to their economy but thats from a purely disciplinary role in case any executives begin to call on things that resemble democracy. Democracy in the West is the ultimate good akin to a holy virtue but democracies are a modern organizational structure that has in the past always fallen into ruin (funny no one mentions that part). The reality is the CCP has turned to Schmitt because Schmitt made no bones about his diagnosis of politics which his assertions and observations were just observations of realities in the human condition. Things like sovereignty, the friend enemy distinction, etc. As for Christianity, they simply replaced the figure with Mao and the playbook that is preached today is Nationalism as Nationalism in modern times is the strongest of political ideologies.

@@doh917 Thank You. Interesting. Structurally responding to my query... I’d only polemize about the “no one mention that” ... I just think that it generally wide spread knowledge that the previous, old models of democracy failed. It actually was the basis for all the philosophers for long centuries believing that democracy is unworkable. The difference, in my take, is that founding fathers of American Democracy (and in extension of all modern democracies) were well studied in that matter and quite in particular, with many arguments for and against. The new form of democracy is no more “direct democracy “ as in the past. It is representative democracy with international checks and balances... and even though it failed to some extent in some countries in the world over the decades and globe, generally speaking it is quite success if you look at the stability statistically! :-)

davisoneill although romania was not a part of the USSR, the Soviets did maintain puppet government in romania which took its orders from the kremlin

He is telling you that it's false. And he is right.

Most radicals are attracted to this doctrine. There is a reason that Carl Schmitt was part of the Nazi party.

When Schmitt is talking about "political theology" he clearly means catholicism and its institutions you can't just transfer that to Islam.

@@C0untZer00 Schmitt did not like the Nazi's. He only joined after they seized power. He wanted to make the best of the situation, and hoped to provide a moderating influence. However, he ended up being marginalized by the Party leadership.

@@Lolux1701 exactly

Then return to your country of origin.

I have left UK, and I am so proud to be out

Get a chance to watch any Vic and Bob whilst you were over?

The English are better than you.