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Broadly put, the principal question with regard to religion and its relation with Marxism is not whether they can coexist together, without submitting one to another. The tradition of liberation theology has proven us that it is possible to suture Marxism and Christianity. However, the main question is: whether it is possible to be a materialist (or a Marxist) without going through the religious opus? Or even better: is it possible to be a materialist (and in this case, a Marxist) by abandoning religion as an idealist enterprise?
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Marx 2008, p. 10.
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Feuerbach 2008, p. 85.
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Ibid.
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Ibid., p. 86.
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Ibid., p. 87/n1.
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Ibid., p. 86.
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Ibid., p. 97.
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Ibid., p. 92.
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Althusser 2005, pp. 198–199.
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Althusser 2012.
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For a critique of Althusser’s critique of Hegel, see especially Žižek 1994, pp. 136–140.
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Hamza, A. (2016). Christian Materialism. In: Althusser and Pasolini. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56652-2_9
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