Connolly's Marxism, part three: Socialism and religion
Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly Perhaps upon no point are the doctrines of Socialism so much misunderstood, and so much misrepresented, as in their relation to Religion. When driven into a corner upon every other point at issue; when from the point of view of economics, of politics, or of morality, he is worsted in argument, this question of Religion invariably forms the final entrenchment of the enemy of Socialism — especially in Ireland. “But it is opposed to Religion,” constitutes the last words, the ultimate shift, of the supporters of capitalism...