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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" 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.
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 was born on 5 May 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henriette Pressburg. He was born at Brückengasse 664 in Trier , an ancient city then part of the Kingdom of Prussia 's Province of the Lower Rhine . [ 15 ]
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.
Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, ... such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Kautsky, ...
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 ...
At the end of the chapter, Marx explicitly links the increase in public debt to original sin, "the faith of capital," and, as Ponzi notes, debt in this context has a clear connotation of guilt. [203] Marx writes of public debt as one of the main levers of initial accumulation, magically transforming unproductive money into capital: [204] [205 ...