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19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium of the people". According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress.
Feb 13, 2024 · Karl Marx discussed some of his ideas about religion in his writings. He understood that religion served a purpose in society but disagreed with the basis of that function. Marx had a hard time believing in unseen truths such as those that religions offer.
Jul 10, 2018 · Marx and Engels saw religion as a conservative force which prevented social change by creating false consciousness. This post summarises their key ideas and offers some supporting evidence and criticisms.
Marx did not believe that such a direct attack against religion would ever work. Since religion is only the symptom of a more basic discrepancy, the demise of religion cannot be hastened. Any direct struggle against religion, therefore, appeared to Marx as useless and misplaced: useless, because religion simply cannot
MARX’S ENGAGEMENT WITH RELIGION. Religion is one of the issues on which the Marxian corpus – the writings authored or coauthored by Karl Marx himself – is deficient. Although there are plenty of references to religion in Marx’s oeuvre, his most quoted statements on the topic belong to the initial
Feb 2, 2017 · This article critically reflects upon the idea of “religion” employed by Karl Marx in the early 1840s. Marx reimagined the encompassing notion of “religion,” which was predominant in his time, by privatizing it in his attempt to critique the theological foundation of the Prussian state.
It is the purpose of the present study to determine the precise nature of Karl Marx's attack on religion throughout the corpus of these important writings from 1841-1846. In Chapter I, I deal with the question of Karl Marx's atheism in terms of the influence of Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach.
