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  2. On the Jewish Question - Wikipedia

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    On the Jewish Question" is a response by Karl Marx to then-current debates over the Jewish question. Marx wrote the piece in 1843, and it was first published in Paris in 1844 under the German title "Zur Judenfrage" in the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

  3. Opium of the people - Wikipedia

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    The opium of the people or opium of the masses (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." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion ...

  4. Marxism and religion - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Marxist–Leninist atheism - Wikipedia

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    Karl Marx, who synthesized anti-religious philosophy with materialism to show that religion is a social construct used for social control by the ruling class of a society. In his rejection of all religious thought, Marx considered the contributions of religion over the centuries to be unimportant and irrelevant to the future of humanity.

  6. Theories about religion - Wikipedia

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    In simple terms, the functional approach sees religion as "performing certain functions for society" [7] Theories by Karl Marx (role of religion in capitalist and pre-capitalist societies), Sigmund Freud (psychological origin of religious beliefs), Émile Durkheim (social function of religions), and the theory by Stark and Bainbridge exemplify ...

  7. Theses on Feuerbach - Wikipedia

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    The "Theses on Feuerbach" are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx as a basic outline for the first chapter of the book The German Ideology in 1845. Like the book for which they were written, the theses were never published in Marx's lifetime, seeing print for the first time in 1888 as an appendix to a pamphlet by his co ...

  8. ‘I Swapped Walks For Indoor Walking Workouts And Found An ...

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    Nelson shares her Apple Watch stats: ‘For that 20-minute low-impact indoor walking workout, I burned 186 calories, and my average heart was 145bpm.

  9. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Wikipedia

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    Althusser believed there was a "break" in Marx's development [1] — a break that divides Marx's thought into an "ideological" period before 1845, and a scientific period after. [86] Others who ascribed a break to Marx idealized the Manuscripts and believed the young Marx to be the real Marx. [ 87 ]