Karl Marx And Marxism

Karl Marx is a sociologist that was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Rhine province, Prussia Germany but He spent much of his time in London. He is revolutionary, sociologist, historian and economist. He published The communist Manifesto, the most celebrated pamphlet in the history of the socialist movement. He also was the author of the movement’s most important book, Das Kapital. These writing and others by Marx and Engels form the basis of the body of thought and belief known as Marxism. Karl died on March 14, 1883 at London, England (Lewis S.Feuer, David T.McLellan). He is the father of modern communism. Marx studied philosophy at Bonn and then later Berlin, where he came under the sway of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich von Hegel (Austin Cline)

According to Karl Marx, religion is one of those social institutions which are dependent upon the material and economic realities in a given society. It has no independent history but is instead the creature of productive forces. As Marx wrote, “The religious world is but the reflex of the real world”(Austin Cline). For Marx religion is primordially an active form of ideological alienation, where inverted world-consciousness and mystification become the essential elements of the alienate process (Nasir Khan:2015) . Based on Karl Marx ideas, Karl said that religion is the “opium of the people” (cite). Unlike Weber, Karl didn’t write the religion as an ideology but Karl look the religion from the perspective of sociology history of society that make the religion as an ideas to make the other peoples true without implementation in their life. For Karl Marx, religion contains a strong ideological element where religion provides justification for oppression and the inequalities of wealth and power found in society (cite).This prevent people from fighting oppression. For example, when the people live poor, they said that it was their fate and they don’t even try to fight to out from that zone and they kept say “thank” for having that life. That makes the people poor and oppressed. He considered that religions are fool to people to get rid of the pain hurt from war. And He said, religion promises happiness in life for a while only. That is why Karl Marx critic about the ideology of religion and said religion is opium of the people. In additional, Marx said it necessarily a conservative, status-quo-preserving force (Mihaela Serban). Marx analysis and critique of religion perhaps one of the most famous and most quoted by theist and atheist alike (Austin Cline). Most of those who doing the quoting don’t really understand what exactly Marx