The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury
episode 24: Marxism & Religion & Everything Else & Religion, With C. Derick Varn
We sat down with C. Derick Varn and solved all the problems that are currently ailing the left. We reconciled the divergent currents of Marxism and wove together the materialist and idealist dichotomy with resounding success, but then lost an hour and a half of audio and were forced to restart the recording; what resulted was a meandering, but entertaining, discussion about just about everything... and religion.
Varn's Podcast "Symptomatic Redness"
http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/tag/symptomatic-redness/
and his poetry.
http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics
Music:
Des Geyers Schwarzer Haufen- Bauernkreig (German Peasant Revolt Anthem)
Further Reading:
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. Marxism and Christianity. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-according-to-terry
Roland Boer on Marxism and Religion
http://isj.org.uk/the-full-story-on-marxism-and-religion/
Lenin: The Attitude of the Workers Party To Religion
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm
Boer, R. (2014). Religion and Socialism. Political Theology, 15(2), 188–209.
Fitzpatrick, F. (1967). A. V. Lunacharsky: Recent Soviet Interpretations and Republications.
Soviet Studies. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp 267-289