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On Religion

Karl Marx author Friedrich Engels author Reinhold Niebuhr editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:2nd Jan '64

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On Religion cover

This is the most representative collection of writings on religion by the two founding fathers of communism. It presents the full arsenal of ideas with which Marx and Engels hoped to explode the religious foundations of all previous societies. Yet also in these writings, as Reinhold Neibuhr's Introduction reveals, are clues to that remarkable development whereby an irreligion was transmuted into a new political religion, canonized precisely in the writings of Marx as sacred scripture. Included are excerpts from Das Kapital, occasional journalistic pieces, private letters, and more formal philosophical writings.

ISBN: 9780891305996

Dimensions: 206mm x 171mm x 22mm

Weight: 422g

384 pages