Marxism, Christianity, and Islam

Name: Marxism, Christianity, and Islam
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Taking Roger Garaudy’s Project Seriously

Written by Julian Spencer Roche

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Roger Garaudy was for many years at the centre of the French Communist Party but was eventually expelled for his liberal views. In the Seventies, he strove to bring Marxism and Christianity together, to include all humanity in a project to set all people free. What emerges from Garaudy’s project is a very modern Marxism, with its emphasis on the individual, its ecological politics, and in its insistence on religion as central to human emancipation. Although Garaudy himself became frustrated by the failure of Marxism and converted to Islam, eventually resulting in his work being discredited in the West, it is certainly possible that Garaudy’s project represents a good, perhaps even the best, starting point for Marxism in today’s world.

Julian Roche's philosophical academic interests lie mainly in Continental Marxism, and in particular Marxist approaches to contemporary issues and problems. He also has an active career as an economist outside academia.

ISBN-13: 9798887192833
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Format: Hardback
Pages: 278
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm
Language: English