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He instructs us by his example in the art of living through an age of catastrophe. - Henri Marrou, Saint Augustine and His Influence Through the Ages
Rozitchner opens La Cosa y la Cruz by reiterating the insufficiency of the traditional Marxist critique of religion. Insofar as Marx in Capital, for example, still expected the veil of religious beliefs to drop as a result of the rational development of the material conditions of everyday life, such a critique "did not reach the nucleus that is the subjective place where the most tenacious submission resides. "32 But this is exactly the place where Rozitchner wants to inscribe his own approach to the power of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. His aim is to reach a more radical understanding of the logic of social change so as to avoid the errors and shortcomings inherent in previous emancipatory projects: "A radicalized social transformation must modify that which religion has organized in the depth of every subject if we do not wish to repeat the heroic but sterile sacrifices of our recent past. "33