This is the most representative collection of writings on religion by the two founding fathers of communism. It presents the full arsenal of ideas with which Marx and Engels hoped to explode the religious foundations of all previous societies. Yet also in these writings, as Reinhold Neibuhr's Introduction reveals, are clues to that remarkable development whereby an irreligion was transmuted into a new political religion, canonized precisely in the writings of Marx as sacred scripture. Included are excerpts from Das Kapital, occasional journalistic pieces, private letters, and more formal philosophical writings.
| ISBN: | 9780891305996 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 1964 |
| Author: | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Reinhold Niebuhr |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | AAR Classics in Religious Studies |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of religion Far-left political ideologies and movements |