The Merchant’s Lament: Revelations and the Transformation of Earthly Economics
Inside of the Holy Bible’s Book of Revelation, in chapter 18, there exists a passage that foretells of the downfall of the “whore of nations” and the subsequent grief experienced by the merchant class, as their cargoes remain unsold in the aftermath of this transformative event. This passage serves as a powerful allegory for the potential upheaval and restructuring of global economic systems.
Revelation 18:11-13:
“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their cargoes anymore—cargoes of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves—that is, human souls.“
“Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking…. generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
|-‘Manifesto of the Communist Party‘ by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. (1848).
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