/lit/ - Literature

Who are the greatest Marxist philosophers (or to make it more general, writers) living today?

Is it safe to read Marx after reading Kirkeegaard?
SK is one of my favorites, but i don't want to see multiple pages of marx bashing religion

In hindsight, Marx's decision to make atheism a central tenet of communism was profoundly stupid.

He fell prey to the tendencies of the very bourgeois he railed against, the tendency of the well-educated, well-off people to underestimate the importance of religion to the lower classes. Atheism correlates with higher socioeconomic status, and if you go lower down the ladder, you get the reverse. Even today, in our enlightened age, poor people are far more likely to be religious than rich people, and it was even more pronounced in Marx's day, when the population as a whole was more religious.

If Marx had avoided taking an anti-religious stance, his economic principles would have won far more support. Marxism would have been discussed before and after Sunday services throughout the world. Biblical scholars would have pointed out that the Apostles themselves practice a form of primitive communism in the Book of Acts. More leftist preachers would have expounded on the virtues of Marxism from their pulpits.

If Karl had just kept his fucking mouth shut about religion, huge swaths of the world today would be communist. That is what I truly believe.

>most overrated
Easy.

There's no philosophy board, so here will have to do.

Karl Marx is the greatest writer to have ever lived. You guys really should read all of his works.