[BEST OF] Religion and Marxism: Thinking Through the Human Condition
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Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Apr 13, 2023
In this unlocked patreon episode, Breht, Adnan, and Henry from Guerrilla History discuss their thoughts on the relationship between religion and Marxism, how Marxists today might think differently about religion compared to Marxists 100 years ago, religion and spirituality as a terrain of struggle for the Left, how to think about science vs. religion, the material basis of religion, what form the religious impulse might take under communism, demystification and meditation, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm one of your co-hosts, |
| 0:45.4 | Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, which will come into play, |
| 0:50.1 | I promise you. Hello, Adnan, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. It's wonderful to be with you. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, it's always nice to see you. |
| 0:57.6 | And also joined as usual by Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio |
| 1:02.0 | and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | Hello, Brett. |
| 1:05.2 | How are you doing? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm doing great today. |
| 1:08.0 | Excellent. |
| 1:08.6 | So we don't have a guest today. Excellent. So we don't have a guest today. This is an intelligence briefing. So we've |
| 1:12.4 | gotten, we've not had as many intelligence briefings recently as we had in the past. But I think |
| 1:17.9 | we're going to try to change that, get back to the format of having a couple of intelligence |
| 1:22.6 | briefings per month. So these are our slightly shorter, more conversational discussions, |
| 1:28.8 | sometimes with just the three of us, sometimes with the guest. Today will be just between the three of us, but we do have |
| 1:33.9 | a really interesting conversation in store on a really fascinating topic, one that some people |
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