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The MarxisT MoMenT By Kathryn Lofton The Sigh of The o ppreSS ed? Marxism and Religion in America Today A 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that more than half of Americans rank the importance of religion very highly in their lives, attend religious services regularly, and p D ra es y d pita e t ily h . e predic- tions of some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social observers, the riotous success of capitalism and the democratization of higher education did not diminish religious life. If anything, the modes an era of extraordinary income disparity and of capital have merely incited religio-us ener abundant religious life. Is this a disappoint- gies, with the markets of one feeding off om f ent of Marx’s prophecies? Or a fulfillment the promises of another. This is fertile terr oif t - hem? tory for the Marxist observer, since it seems If I know religion to be man’s alienated self- to fulfill Marx’s prophecies as well as resist his consciousness, then what I know to be confirmed plotted rebellions. For Marx, capitalism was a in it as religion is not my self-consciousness but systematic misrecognition. Individuals are
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Published: Oct 1, 2012
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