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Karl Marx as a Religious Type · Карл Маркс как религиозный тип

Sergei Bulgakov

Translated by S. Alexander Laurent

Bulgakov’s 1906 essay on Marx the man: his temperament, his debt to Feuerbach’s religion of man-godhood, and socialism as a faith in its own right, written by a former Marxist on his way back to the Church. In Russian beside a new English translation.

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  • Russian: С. Н. Булгаков, «Карл Маркс как религиозный тип» (Московский еженедельник, 1906; St Petersburg: D. E. Zhukovsky, 1907).
  • English: Laurentium Cultural Industries, bilingual revision (8 October 2026). The thematic section headings are editorial.

Contents · 8

  1. 1A. Religious method and personal motivation
  2. 2B. Personality, individuality and atheism
  3. 3C. Marx, Hegel and German idealism
  4. 4D. Feuerbach, religion and human emancipation
  5. 5E. The Jewish question and religious politics
  6. 6F. Historical materialism and philosophical continuity
  7. 7G. Socialism and the theological judgment of Marx
  8. 8Notes