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Religion and Marxism: Thinking Through the Human Condition

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Antithesis of Religion

Buddhist meditation is in a lot of ways a scientific investigation of subjectivity. And it is a first person subjective exploration but with a scientific rigor that often is lacked in other manifestations of religion most notably metaphysical belief claims. But, and I think this potentiality perhaps lies in all religions or there'll be new religions we can't even fathom yet that will manifest under these conditions. That's why I'm personally interested in both Buddhism and Marxism. So yeah, I would just toss it out there and see what you guys think. Well, Brecht didn't you recently give a talk about this subject? You know, what was your main thesis apart from this potential symmetry, you

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