Like capitalism, Karl Marx had a strong dislike for
religion. To Marx, religion was
something the oppressors used in society to distract the people in the lower
classes. To put it in Marxist terms, the
bourgeoisie used religion to distract the proletariat from the terrible working
conditions and low wages.
Marx was very critical of religion. He felt that religion was a product of man. Marx felt that religion was made by the
individuals who were “in charge” in society.
He believed that in order for a perfect classless society to exist
religion could not exist.
Marx’s famous quote on the aspect of religion is that
“religion is the opium of the masses”.
This goes back to what I mentioned earlier about Marx thinking that
religion is used to distract the workers or the proletariat from realizing the
impoverished conditions with which they were living in.
By: Lauren Williams Section 9 Group 3
"He believed that in order for a perfect classless society to exist religion could not exist." I don't know that he thought religion strictly incompatible with a classless society, so much as just superfluous. He seems just to have assumed that people would forget all about religion, once their material desires were satisfied and they were free to pursue life's secular/spiritual satisfactions. This seems true for some of us, don't you think, but by no means all of us?
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