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(noun) material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence (from the New Testament)

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mammon



The capitalist class [...] forced upon the worker a subjectivity that viewed work as a debt owed at one and the same time to God and Mammon.

—p.282 Subject (275) by McKenzie Wark
notable
6 years, 3 months ago


a "hobby" Dean, a Christian, perhaps invoking biblical maxims about God and mammon, finds "debased and distorted"

Lane Dean's views on coin-collecting

—p.230 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
unknown
6 years, 11 months ago


It’s hard, though, not to be sympathetic to their excoriated, Mammon-fixated fathers. All they wanted (conceived of in one way) was the best for their precocious, privileged, one might even say bratty sons.

—p.46 Part I: 1900-1920 (13) by Stuart Jeffries
uncertain
6 years, 7 months ago


the Reagan era ushered in a new age of Mammon-worship

—p.160 American Labor and the Great Depression (141) by Steve Fraser
notable
3 years ago