On Religion by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

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In this single volume is the best collection of writings on Religion by the two founding fathers of Communism. In it the reader will find the entire 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 Niebuhr shows in his introduction- “are clues to that remarkable development of which many students have been made aware, of an irreligion transmuted into a new political religion, canonized precisely in the writings of Marx (and the later Lenin) as sacred scripture, and preached … as the principles for a revolutionary reformation of the social order according to an immutable dogma.