I know that Karl Marx's parents were both Jewish-converted Lutherans, so what if he was a Christian all of his life and still wrote the Communist Manifesto?
As a seriously devout Christian, he couldn't have developed his theory. Marxism as a form of Communism needs the rejection of God in favour of an amorphous principle of history to make sense.
in that case, maybe Proudhon and Bakunin would be more well known, at the level Marx is today?
As a seriously devout Christian, he couldn't have developed his theory. Marxism as a form of Communism needs the rejection of God in favour of an amorphous principle of history to make sense.
As a seriously devout Christian, he couldn't have developed his theory. Marxism as a form of Communism needs the rejection of God in favour of an amorphous principle of history to make sense.
A materialistic view of the world does not necessarily deny a God. Marx's conception of God could easily be a rational being working behind and setting the historical processes in motion. Something like the Enlightment "reasoned" view of God.