Longer established readers will recall that last year Socialist Resistance issued a reprint of  Karl Kautsky’s 1908 book The Foundations of Christianity. It’s not been generally available in English for about thirty years. We chose to reissue this book because there is a growing ignorance of the classical Marxist approach to religion. Kautsky subjected the early years of the development of Christianity to a materialist examination his interpretation was very influential in the European workers’ movement in the early twentieth century.

That edition was so full of errors that we had to withdraw it. The good news is that after much anguish and tribulation a new edition is virtually complete. If our luck holds, which it usually doesn’t, it’s off to the printers next week.