Religion & Marx

This might  be on the bibliographies, I haven't checked. At any rate,
this ten page article looks to take an interesting approach. I don't
have a copy though. This is the cheapest (USD 25.00) online price I
could find for this article. But as I said, it would be tempting to
work out an understanding of Marx not only up against Feuerbach but
with some other contemporaries. So we get this paper on F, M and
Bloch.

A far different but interesting approach for me would be a
reconciliation of socialism and Islamist movements, such as Hezbollah
and the Sadrist Resistance in Iraq. The US and much of Europe under
the tutelage of the hegemon have taken the world down a path to hell
in this regard.

CJ
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http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713994384~db=all

Religion and communism: Feuerbach, Marx and Bloch
Author: Vincent Geoghegan
DOI: 10.1080/1084877042000306352
Publication Frequency: 7 issues per year
Published in: journal The European Legacy, Volume 9, Issue 5 October
2004 , pages 585 - 595
Subjects: European History; European Studies; Philosophy;
Formats available: PDF (English)

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Abstract
Whilst Marx made scattered positive remarks about the details of
communist society, he also made important negative indications.
Religion features in this negativity: his critique of religion is
withering, there is no mention of religious life in communism, and he
is emphatic that religion will play no role in such a society. For
Marx, one of the tangible freedoms of communism was freedom from
religion. The critique of religion is fundamentally inscribed in the
very genesis of Marx's thought, and Feuerbach is crucial to
understanding Marx's strictures on religion. Yet Feuerbach also
figures in Ernst Bloch's very positive approach to religion, which
argues that communism involves the freedom to be religious, in the
sense of opening up oneself and society to the gold-bearing seams of
the religious experience. This essay explores how such different
conceptions of the relationship between religion and communism both
draw sustenance from Feuerbach.

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MLA style citation:

Geoghegan, Vincent. "Religion and communism: Feuerbach, Marx and
Bloch" The European Legacy 9.5 (2004). 25 Sep. 2007
<http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/1084877042000306352>

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