13-08-2011, 01:53 AM
I tried to respond to this post this morning but couldn't connect & then had to leave for the "state of usury", South Dakota. What I had said this morning went something like this.
Marx wasn't as irreligious as we think. Yes, he said "religion is the opiate of the people" and "the sigh of the oppressed". The fact that the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA-Marxist-Leninist) has a religion commission with clergymen from various faiths is some indication as to how complex Marxism is when it comes to religion. There is a line of thought from Epicurus through Spinoza to Marx. I see one of your biblio. books is by Antonio Dimasio. Much of Dimasio is related to Spinoza's ideas about the mind body split. The term pantheism was coined in 1805 to describe Spinoza's religious views. When Einstein was asked if he believed in God he said "yes, my god is the God of Spinoza". Einstein was a socialist.
Marx wasn't as irreligious as we think. Yes, he said "religion is the opiate of the people" and "the sigh of the oppressed". The fact that the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA-Marxist-Leninist) has a religion commission with clergymen from various faiths is some indication as to how complex Marxism is when it comes to religion. There is a line of thought from Epicurus through Spinoza to Marx. I see one of your biblio. books is by Antonio Dimasio. Much of Dimasio is related to Spinoza's ideas about the mind body split. The term pantheism was coined in 1805 to describe Spinoza's religious views. When Einstein was asked if he believed in God he said "yes, my god is the God of Spinoza". Einstein was a socialist.