Through exploring points of contact between Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Marx, and Lenin, Roland Boer finds new and richer layers of shared meanings betwen the Bible and communism,... Continue reading
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Roland Boer continues his series on Marxism and religion with a look at some examples of how Marx interpreted the Bible. The mention of Marx and the... Continue reading
May 5th is Ascension Day in the Christian calendar. Andrew Brown proposes a radical linterpretation of the story, first suggested by the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch. Introductory... Continue reading
Can religion foster revolutionary movements? Roland Boer continues his series on marxism and religion, with a discussion of Engels’s growing understanding of the political ambivalence of Christianity. It... Continue reading
Anarchist, conservative, liberal or revolutionary? Professor James Crossley discusses the various interpretations of the Easter story of the life of Jesus, the Monty Python film Life of Brian,... Continue reading
What did Marx mean by his vivid metaphor? Roland Boer continues his series of articles on Marxism and religion with an examination of the historical, textual and... Continue reading
Roland Boer sets the scene for a series of articles on the complex and contradictory relations between Marxism and religion, with an introduction to some of the... Continue reading
Ben Stevenson outlines Christopher Caudwell’s historical materialist analysis of religion. Poet, activist and theoretician Christopher Caudwell wrote extensively on issues of philosophy and idealism in culture and... Continue reading
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