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Religion and Marxism: Thinking Through the Human Condition

Revolutionary Left Radio

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Marxism and Buddhism

Anarchists can hold Marxism as a religion and in the negative sense is sometimes there's this idea that communism is the end to all problems, and importantly the end of all contradiction. In every religious tradition, there's never been a prophet that's been conservative. Every prophet is bringing radical change, doctrinally socially, you know Jesus Buddha. These are not people coming down to say, everything's fine the status quo is actually great. They are radical challenges to the status quo so the institutional church. I mean in the US, the evangelical church is on the forefront of the developing fascist process that we see taking place. So we have to be able to challenge these institutions and these structures while

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