Intellectual, Moral, and Religious Conversion as Radical Political Conversion

The purpose of this chapter is to establish a connection between conversion as Lonergan understands it and a radical, critical, political stance. What are the socio-political implications of intellectual, ethical, and political conversion? It is the main contention of this chapter that these conversions lead up to, imply, and are completed in radical, political conversion. Short of that, intellectual, moral, and religious conversion remains truncated, incomplete, half-hearted, inconsistent, obscurantist. If the pure desire to know obligates us, as Lonergan argues, always to raise or be open to raising the further question, then one such question is the following: “Is capitalism