Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Timestamps:
1:03 Was religion invented to control people?
5:17 How did religion emerge? How did it evolve?
16:40 Different classes see religion differently
19:01 How will religion disappear?
23:41 How should communists act towards religious people?
I would have discussed the policies of Socialist governments towards religion but the video would've simply gotten too long. I will discuss that topic in a future episode in my series on the Hungarian People's Republic.
SOURCES:
Engels, Anti-Dühring, Part III, Chap. V
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch27.htm
Marx, Capital vol. I, Chap. 1, Section 4
hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1867-c1/ch01.html#S4
Engels, On the History of Early Christianity
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894/early-christianity/index.htm
Engels, The Peasant War in Germany
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany
Lenin, On the Significance of Militant Materialism
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm
Lenin, Religion
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.125845/page/n13/mode/2up
Marx and Engels, On Religion
archive.org/details/marxengels0000unse
Lenin, On the Question of Dialectics
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
marxistphilosophy.org/LenEmpCrit1.pdf
E. Nevalainen, Marxilaisuus ja uskonto [Marxism and religion]
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/kommunisti-no-11-1950-1.pdf
T. Lehen, Kommunismi ja kristinusko [Communism and Christianity]
marxists.org/suomi/lehen/1951/kristinusko/index.htm
J. Kosminski, Keskiajan historia [History of the middle ages]
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/keskiajan-historia-j.-a.-kosminski.pdf
A Text Book Of Marxist Philosophy by John Lewis
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.351472/page/n3/mode/2up
Political Economy: A Textbook issued by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R
marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe
Articles on "judaism", "christianity", "islam", "protestantism" and "catholicism" in Kratkiy filosofskiy slovar [Short philosophical dictionary, 1954, ed. P. Yudin & M. Rosenthal]
https://filslov.ru/162-iudaizm.html
https://filslov.ru/497-xristianstvo.html
https://filslov.ru/156-islam.html
https://filslov.ru/369-protestantizm.html
https://filslov.ru/173-katolicizm.html
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Timestamps:
1:03 Was religion invented to control people?
5:17 How did religion emerge? How did it evolve?
16:40 Different classes see religion differently
19:01 How will religion disappear?
23:41 How should communists act towards religious people?
I would have discussed the policies of Socialist governments towards religion but the video would've simply gotten too long. I will discuss that topic in a future episode in my series on the Hungarian People's Republic.
SOURCES:
Engels, Anti-Dühring, Part III, Chap. V
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch27.htm
Marx, Capital vol. I, Chap. 1, Section 4
hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1867-c1/ch01.html#S4
Engels, On the History of Early Christianity
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894/early-christianity/index.htm
Engels, The Peasant War in Germany
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany
Lenin, On the Significance of Militant Materialism
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm
Lenin, Religion
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.125845/page/n13/mode/2up
Marx and Engels, On Religion
archive.org/details/marxengels0000unse
Lenin, On the Question of Dialectics
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
marxistphilosophy.org/LenEmpCrit1.pdf
E. Nevalainen, Marxilaisuus ja uskonto [Marxism and religion]
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/kommunisti-no-11-1950-1.pdf
T. Lehen, Kommunismi ja kristinusko [Communism and Christianity]
marxists.org/suomi/lehen/1951/kristinusko/index.htm
J. Kosminski, Keskiajan historia [History of the middle ages]
mltheory3.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/keskiajan-historia-j.-a.-kosminski.pdf
A Text Book Of Marxist Philosophy by John Lewis
archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.351472/page/n3/mode/2up
Political Economy: A Textbook issued by the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R
marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe
Articles on "judaism", "christianity", "islam", "protestantism" and "catholicism" in Kratkiy filosofskiy slovar [Short philosophical dictionary, 1954, ed. P. Yudin & M. Rosenthal]
https://filslov.ru/162-iudaizm.html
https://filslov.ru/497-xristianstvo.html
https://filslov.ru/156-islam.html
https://filslov.ru/369-protestantizm.html
https://filslov.ru/173-katolicizm.html
---------------------------------
My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik
My discord
discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK
My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com
My email
TheFinnishBolshevik@gmail.com
