heiss93
10th April 2010, 17:12
"The strong linkage between politics and religion in the late nineteenth century was having a profound social impact, one that deeply troubled Marx and Engels. The following story illustrates just how it incensed them. While playing a well-known Victorian parlor game with Karl Marx’s daughter, Engels answered with a single word a “Confessions” question (“What is your favorite motto?” “What is your favorite color?” etc.) that asked whom he most hated in life. “Spurgeon,” was Engels’s curt, one-word answer, referring to the English Baptist… whose sermons in the 1850s to the 1880s drew as many as twenty thousand people, many of them working-class folk. Why did Engels hate him so? Because Spurgeon was diverting England’s urban working class away from atheist revolutionary socialism to Christian parliamentary reformism.[9] "
http://americanvision.org/2009/post/spurgeon-on-socialism/
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/04/01.htm
http://americanvision.org/2009/post/spurgeon-on-socialism/
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/04/01.htm