Religion and Marxism

JESUS IS a DIALECTICAL MATERIALIST
OLD MARXIST OPINION
May 18, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: Religion and marxism
Body: ok i have notied there are a few questions about the role of religion, and its links to capitalism, so i thouht i'd post this again.

read this:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1905/misc/socialism-churches.htm

its an article by Rosa Luxemburg, about the history of christianity, how jesus was a communist, how the church betrayed this belief, and how the church is a tool of capitalist oppresion, its really good.

this one is a article by the great Alan Woods, a brilliant britsh trotskyist, this is pretty much like the Rosa Luxemburg, but this one mentions why Atheism should be followed by communists, why god does not exist, life after death, the church today, and how the origins of christianity are communist (the act of the apothles) its titled Marxism and religon. for those who dont want to read it because it is trotskyist, dont worry, you cant actually tell.

http://www.marxist.com/Theory/marxism_and_religion.html

article written by Lenin:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

basically talks about how the church is used by the capitalists, to "spiritually oppress" them.

"Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man." Lenin