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March 18, 2005
marx on religion
Religion... is the self-conscious and self-feeling of the man who either has not yet found himself, or else (having found himself) has lost himself once more. But man is not an abstract being... Man is the world of men, the State, society. This State, this society produces religion, produces a perverted world consciousness, because they are a perverted world. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The people cannot be really happy until it has been deprived of illusory happiness by the abolition of religion. The demand that people should shake itself free of illusion as to its own condition is the demand that it should abandon a condition which needs illusion.
Marx
Posted by amin at March 18, 2005 6:00 AM
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