... the deep, bitter tensions that arise from the clash between the powerful and the powerless" (136). Marx saw religion as part of the mitigating complex called "ideology," embodying "the natural inclination of those who benefit from injustice to show why the circumstance that creates it should remain unchanged" (138). The role of religion for Marx then is to quench the emotional ... ...
... the deep, bitter tensions that arise from the clash between the powerful and the powerless" (136)*. Marx saw religion as part of the mitigating complex called "ideology," embodying "the natural inclination of those who benefit from injustice to show why the circumstance that creates it should remain unchanged" (138)*. Marx agreed wholeheartedly with Feuerbach's anti-Hegelian description of alienation in which ... ...
... thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. But if he refrains from molesting others in what concerns them, and merely acts according to his own inclination and judgement in things that concern himself, the same reasons which show that opinion should be free, prove also that he should be allowed, without molestation, to carry his opinions ... ...
... would be necessary to implement a communistic government. His views on what exactly liberty is, directly contradict society's increasing tendency to demand conformity, by saying that: "there is also an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual and as the tendency of all the changes taking place in the world is to strengthen society, and diminish the ... ...
