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Feb 13, 2024 · Karl Marx’s Quotes On Religion. The following quotes are from Marx’s writing, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1844): ‘Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.’.
The opium of the people or opium of the masses (‹See Tfd› German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people."
Aug 26, 2003 · Marx’s explanation is that religion is a response to alienation in material life, and therefore cannot be removed until human material life is emancipated, at which point religion will wither away. Precisely what it is about material life that creates religion is not set out with complete clarity.
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
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Abstract: Marx is notorious for his claim that religion is the opium of the people and thus become famous as one of modern thought's most uncompromising critics of reli gion.
Aug 26, 2003 · This work is home to Marx’s notorious remark that religion is the ‘opiate of the people’, a harmful, illusion-generating painkiller, and it is here that Marx sets out his account of religion in most detail.
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Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction ...
