Religion and alienation - Marx (1844)

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Alienation

  • Alienation = separation from creation

    • Dehumanising

  • Religion = product of alienation

    • Exploited people turn to religion as a form of consolation (‘opiate of the masses’)

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‘Opiate of the masses’

  • Opium = dulls the pain [of exploitation]

  • Religion/opium:

    • Masks underlying problems

    • Provides a distorted view of the world

      • Doesn’t solve earthly miseries

        • Offers an afterlife to create illusory happiness

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Religion and suffering

  • Arises from suffering

  • Consols suffering

  • Does nothing for the cause of suffering

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CRITICISM of alienation - Althusser (1971)

  • Alienation is unscientific — a romanticised view of human beings having a ‘true self’

    • Inadequate basis for a theory