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Podcast: You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist
Episode: 26. Mike Belcher: Is Marxism the New Opiate of the Masses?
Description: Karl Marx famously declared religion to be βthe opiate of the masses,β implying weβd be better off without it. But can human beings really live without a religion of any kind? Perhaps when we try to suppress the spiritual instinct so innate to our humanity, it doesnβt disappear altogether; rather, it gets channeled unconsciously into cultish behaviors and modes of thought where we least expect them to show up.In this intellectually rigorous discussion, I meet with writer and New Hampshire state legislature candidate Mike Belcher to discuss his heady piece, βA Resolution to Declare Marxism a...