Christopher Hitchens on Karl Marx

Christopher Hitchens explains why religion still resonates in modern society by quoting from Karl Marx.

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[namtesyalp]

@nontrainspotter you are also a liar.dont you think a person can look at your channel and see you are an atheist,maybe you are a schizo

[twiggy120]

@0:42 Heil Hitchens!

[TheProletarianRevo]

@nontrainspotter Well, there is many different international worker organisations at the time but no movement, no. But just look how fast it sprung up in the first place seen to the whole human history. I think it can grow back much more stronger and much more advanced than the previous attemts.

[TheProletarianRevo]

@nontrainspotter if i think workers will unite? well, i hope they will eventually, and i am working a lot to contribute to that in my country(sweden). But just to point out. Marx did never say that they unison of workers was something that was going to happen by itself. He's goal is a class-less society and he identified the working class as the class most keen to fighting towards that.

[TheProletarianRevo]

@nontrainspotter I am not that familiar with Marx view on USA at the time. But my guess is that he looked at the US with pretty high hopes. The workers movement was growing pretty mig in the 19th sentury over there. Just take that International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.

[nontrainspotter]

@namtesyalp Ok thanks, but you've only answered one question out of many that I had for you. I've never come accross such a definition before, in which source of reference did you find that? If you are an Atheist troll making christians look dumb please let me know, because I am a christian making atheists look stupid and you're not helping!

[namtesyalp]

@TheProletarianRevo hitchens proves that an english accent may sound intelligent to the average simpleton but doesnt mean that person is intelligent.roast in purgatory hitchs,hope you found Jesus in the end

[namtesyalp]

@nontrainspotter an atheist is a person of 3 things.one, an evil person that cannot reveal he is a satanist cause no one will listen to him so he claims to not believe in GOD to put doubt in peoples mind.two,a simpleminded person that cannot concieve the conplex and lacks common sense.childlike.Third, a deviant pervert that has mental problems,somehow thinks if God doesnt exist,it excuses his pervert behavior such as homosexualit,beastiablity,ince­st etc.

[nontrainspotter]

@TheProletarianRevo Fair enough, I'll take your word for it for now until I get a chance to read up a bit more. I've only read the Manifesto, and that was a while ago. While I accept Marx's take on history, I don't think he was right on what the future could or would be. Did he not completely neglect the importance of the USA at the time? Do you still think workers will unite? There is no international workers movement anymore, it's dead isn't it?

[TheProletarianRevo]

@tigersforchrist And you must accept that Jesus might not be coming and that there might not be any heaven or hell so you might just have to deal with this shit here and now and stop hoping for a better life in heaven.

Religion is a hope to be able to live a rich and fulfilling life atleast in the afterlife were justice exists and where the good ones gets treated good and the bad gets treated bad.

Understad that this is it... We can create the society we want if us workers unites!