He's the first dominoe that triggered the European Wars of Religion and birthed the disastrous proto-capitalist ideologies of the various early protestant sects, which form the social bedrock of many pro-capitalist ideologies later down the line

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

John Calvin has a lot to answer for

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

All my homies hate John Calvin

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not like Catholicism was any good. Orthodoxy was dead in western and central Europe at that time.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Catholicism has all of about two decades working positively to its credit. But it has tended to play both sides of the colonial struggle, and so to many it is understandably a key piece of their liberationary understanding.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

and birthed the disastrous proto-capitalist ideologies of the various early protestant sects, which form the social bedrock of many pro-capitalist ideologies later down the line

Yes, but also many early Protestants were proto-socialists as well. The Anabaptist rebellions come to mind, as do the Diggers, who were explicitly reacting to the enclosure of the Commons by bourgeois Protestants in England