Religion and Marxism: Thinking Through the Human Condition

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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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 and what form the religious impulse might take under communism, demystification and meditation, and more.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boone?
0:09.0	No!
0:11.0	The same thing happened in Algiers, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The fringe had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:21.0	But they put some gorilla action on them.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome to Gorilla History.
0:30.0	The podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history
0:34.0	and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.0	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckamacki.
0:41.0	Join us by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussain,
0:44.0	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada,
0:49.0	which will come into play.
0:51.0	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
0:53.0	I'm doing great. It's wonderful to be with you.
0:56.0	Yeah, it's always nice to see you.
0:58.0	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. Hello Brett, how are you doing?
1:06.0	I'm doing great today.
1:08.0	Excellent. So we don't have a guest today.
1:10.0	This is an intelligence briefing.
1:12.0	So we've gotten, we've not had as many intelligence briefings recently as we had in the past.
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