GOD-BUILDING God-buildinga philosophic trend, hostile to Marxism, which arose in the period of the Stolypin reaction among a section

of the Party intellectuals, who departed from Marxism after the defeat of the Revolution of 1905-07. The god-builders (A.V. Lunacharsky, V. Bazarov and others) advocated the creation of a new, socialist religion in an attempt to reconcile Marxism with religion. At one time they were joined by Maxim Gorky. The reactionary nature of god-building was revealed by Lenin in his book Materialism and Empirio-criticism and in his letters to Gorky during February-April 1908 and November-December 1913. Note 77, LCW 20:581.

God-builders adherents of a religious-philosophical trend, hostile to Marxism, which in the period of reaction (190710) arose among a section of the Party intellectuals who had moved away from Marxism after the defeat of the revolution of 190507. The god-builders advocated the creation of a new socialist religion and tried to reconcile Marxism with religion. An extended meeting of the editorial board of Proletary held on June 817 (2130), 1909 condemned god-building and declared in a special resolution that the Bolshevik section of the Party had nothing in common with such a distortion of scientific socialism. (See the C.P.S.U. in the Resolutions and Decisions of Its Congresses, Conferences and Plenums of the Central Committee, Part 1, 1954, p. 222.)