Religion and alienation - Marx (1844)
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4 Terms
Alienation
Alienation = separation from creation
Dehumanising
Religion = product of alienation
Exploited people turn to religion as a form of consolation (‘opiate of the masses’)
‘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
Religion and suffering
Arises from suffering
Consols suffering
Does nothing for the cause of suffering
CRITICISM of alienation - Althusser (1971)
Alienation is unscientific — a romanticised view of human beings having a ‘true self’
Inadequate basis for a theory
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