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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.
On The Jewish Question – Works of Karl Marx, 1844; Hal Draper: Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype (1977) Abram Leon: The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation (French 1946, English 1950) Jonathan Wolff: Karl Marx, 2.1 On the Jewish Question, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017)
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 ...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in Marx-Engels Forum, Berlin-Mitte, Germany 1948 Soviet Union stamp, featuring Marx and Engels, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto Marx's ideas have had a profound impact on world politics and intellectual thought, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 266 ] [ 267 ] in particular in the aftermath of the 1917 ...
Fromm also critiques Marx's idea that religion is the "opiate of the people," arguing that it is actually an expression of man's alienation from himself and from others. Fromm concludes that Marx's greatest contribution was his recognition of the human need for self-actualization, which can only be met through social relationships based on love ...
Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie (1844, introduction). Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (German: Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie) is a manuscript written by the German political philosopher Karl Marx in 1843 but unpublished during his lifetime—except for the introduction, published in Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher in 1844.
Only surviving page from the first draft of the Manifesto, handwritten by Karl Marx. In spring 1847, Marx and Engels joined the League of the Just, who were quickly convinced by the duo's ideas of "critical communism". At its First Congress in 2–9 June, the League tasked Engels with drafting a "profession of faith", but such a document was ...
Karl Marx: His Life and Thoughts. London etc.: MacMillan Press. [1] McLellan, David (1973b). Karl Marx: His Life and Thoughts. New York etc.: Harper & Row. [2] These editions were republished several times, [3] in different forms, also as an e-book (after the MacMillan 1973 edition). [4] In 1995 a republication appeared under a different name: