The Theology of Marxism, Session 2 of 3
In this session of Sovereign Nations’s “The Theology of Marxism” conference, James Lindsay addresses the titular theme of the conference: The Theology of Marxism.
For a century and a half, people have failed to recognize Marxism for what it is, a theology. Marx’s emphasis on Atheism and strict materialism in all things have obscured from view what Marxism really is. Well, it is not a social theory. It is not an economic theory. It is a theology that sees economic and related social conditions as that which shapes human lives and, if born again into the faith, compels them to seize those means of human production and repurpose them to achieve the Marxian eschatology. That eschatology goes by a few names, but the most identifiable are “Communism,” “Liberation,” and “Social Justice.”
Session 1: The Dialectical Faith of Leftism
Session 3: The Role of Consciousness and the Evolution of the Gospel of Marxism
The audio version of this presentation is available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or by RSS.
2 comments
Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, by Murray M. Rothbard
https://www.rothbard.it/essays/marx-religious-eschatologist.pdf
Thank you, James. Marxism formed the basis for communism. Karl Marx thoughts were to abolish all private property but the most evil was convincing man to believe he cannot be an independent thinker but a cog in a machine. Marx had a backwards thought process.
“Life has a value only when it has something as its object.” – Hegel