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... Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty, and today I'll be talking with Dawn Foster about religion and socialism.

We'll be chatting about whether religious progressives and the broader left can find common cause

in the fight against austerity. We'll also discuss liberation theology and the life of

Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated during the Civil War in El Salvador.

And finally, we'll consider the legacy of the so-called new atheism.

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Dawn Foster is a staff writer for Tribune Magazine and Jacobin

and also a Guardian columnist.

She writes on politics, social affairs and economics.

Our conversation was centred on her recent article,

Love Thy Neighbor, which you can find in the latest issue of Tribune magazine.

So Marxism and socialism more broadly is often depicted, especially by conservatives as being sort of militantly and intolerantly atheist.

And obviously throughout modern history, leftists have found themselves

in conflict with religious conservatism, which is obviously buttressed some of the most

reprehensible regimes in history. But nonetheless, and you point to this in your article,

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