On religion
By: Karl Marx. arranged and edited, with an introduction and new translations, by Saul K. Padover
Contributors: Padover, Saul Kussiel, 1905-1981, editor
Series: The Karl Marx library -- v. 5; Karl Marx library -- v. 5.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Religion; Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Christentum
Work titles: Works
Description: 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 <em>Das Kapital</em>, occasional journalistic pieces, private letters, and more formal philosophical writings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261).
Table of contents: title: V. 1. On revolution.; title: v. 2. On America and the Civil War.; title: v. 3. On the First International.; title: v. 4. On freedom of the press and censorship.; title: v. 5. On religion.; title: v. 6. On education, women, and children.; title: v. 7. On history and people.