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¹ I consider religion (again properly conceived/understood) to be a form of politics.
² The fact that a relatively small number of persons (e.g. professional athletes) appear to have earned their wealth solely thru their own labor, while it might justify that wealth, it is entirely besides the point that maximization of the extraction of surplus value as an objective function for the optimization of society and constricting, directly or indirectly, all of it's activities to this principle of private accumulation is wrong and/or irrational and a literally fatal mistake. Further, it's my contention, the merit or lack thereof of the members of the various classes of society are also irrelevant to this matter of supreme principle. It's taken me a while to get to this point, because I still do believe that class differentiations based on merit and fair acqusition of personal wealth are a good thing and attempts to eliminate them are wrong. For this reason I railed at the usage of the term 'equality', e.g. in the various sections of the Fourth International. Justice, I thought, and not Equality was the issue. I now see that this was wrong and that the only way to have true Justice is to establish real equality of opportunity as the primary social principle.

³ Analects [3].