Ya know like the people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris? The “facts and logic” people who absolutely hated religion and blamed it for everything bad?
What’s a material Marxist analysis of this?
Ya know like the people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris? The “facts and logic” people who absolutely hated religion and blamed it for everything bad?
What’s a material Marxist analysis of this?
Simply put, atheism with liberal characteristics, they see the completely shit role religions always had in the capitalist, feudal and slave societies as the hand of the ruling class (and indeed priesthood was often part of it, sometimes even just was it) but as liberals they don’t see the material reasons for it and since they are really idealists they can’t see the the material reason behind it, they just think it fallen from the sky and needs to be exorcised with the same method which naturally won’t work.
However, atheism is intergral and inseparate part of materialism and thus marixsm. Just because some libs claim to be atheists does not mean marxists should abandon it.