We sat down with C. Derick Varn and solved all the problems that are currently ailing the left. We reconciled the divergent currents of Marxism and wove together the materialist and idealist dichotomy with resounding success, but then lost an hour and a half of audio and were forced to restart the recording; what resulted was a meandering, but entertaining, discussion about just about everything... and religion. Varn's Podcast "Symptomatic Redness"http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/tag/symptomatic-redness/and his poetry.http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalypticsMusic:Des Geyers Schwarzer Haufen- Bauernkreig (German Peasant Revolt Anthem)Further Reading:MacIntyre, Alasdair C. Marxism and Christianity. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagletonhttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-according-to-terryRoland Boer on Marxism and Religionhttp://isj.org.uk/the-full-story-on-marxism-and-religion/Lenin: The Attitude of the Workers Party To Religionhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htmBoer, R. (2014). Religion and Socialism. Political Theology, 15(2), 188–209.Fitzpatrick, F. (1967). A. V. Lunacharsky: Recent Soviet Interpretations and Republications.Soviet Studies. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp 267-289Support the show