Religion has enormous anti-capitalist potential

Don't get me wrong: I am an agnostic. This observation just crossed my mind.

So I ask myself, why this potential isn't really cultivated?

I mean, anti-capitalism and religion are in many cases in a social-normative neighborhood (solidarity, equality, justice, etc). I bet there is already a marxist theological perspective on this in the literature for a long time.

But then why hasn't this already cultivated on a religious organizational - i.e. institutional - and ultimately individual level? For example as the church as a labor movement or the good christian as a unionist, or sth like that?

Of course, I understand, Marxism wanted to overcome religion in questions of governmental hegemony and class domination. But I ask myself, what about our current secular scenario today? I mean, couldn't an exclusively civil cooperation with religion actually be a sustainable social regulation of the free market via the moral tradition of the people?

And of course, you might say that religious institutional corruption could be a problem in this. But wouldn't that still mean that religion itself is actually capable of much more in an anti-capitalistic sense?

Sure, one problem I see is that religious morality can quickly turn into dogmas of authoritarian nature, simply because the premise of a higher god.

I don't really know. It just crossed my mind.

What do you think?

– as a religious person, as a non-religious person, as a marxist, as a liberal, etc.