12.25.09
Christianity and–historical materialism??
Foundations of Christianity
Written by John Pickard
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Many of us know that the origins of Christianity have nothing to do with silent nights or wise men. So what are its true origins? John Pickard looks at the reality of how this religion came about – from the standpoint of class forces and the material developments of society, rather than by the pious fictions fed from church pulpits.
For anyone on the left, the bone-headed stupidity of historical materialism can be dishearening, the more so as no learning occurs, and decades after the fall of Bolshevism, the bolshie buttheads are still the reigning ideology.
Let me note, however, that I cite this article because it has some interesting history, that of the text of Kautsky’s book on this subject, for one.
Christianity, whatever we think of the result, is a complicated mystery, one that won’t yield to the analysis of Marxists, none of whom has yet made contact with the reality of the Axial Age, and the way in which monotheism shows a macro component.