8. “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Marx really said all this stuff, folks, but you don’t know it because your Leftist, Marxist teachers—which has ...

Karl Marx once said religion is the opiate of the masses. His metaphor may have a whiff of literal truth, even if it was intended as a hostile attack on religion from an atheistic perspective. It may ...

Usually, a book about ideas is pretty straightforward. The author is saying this stuff because he believes it. With Terry Eagleton, the British Marxist literary theorist, it’s less so. In his previous ...