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Despite the decline of organized religion in recent years, there has also been a concurrent rise in mysticism and “New Age” beliefs. How should communists approach this belief with people that we encounter in our work?

📖 Lenin “The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm

📖 Marx on religion “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm

📖 Engels’s letter to Conrad Schmidt on the development of ideas: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_10_27.htm

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