Marxism and Religion

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what does religion help the subject class deal with, according to Marx?
their alienation
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what is alienation?
where the subject class are cut off from the goods they produce, which are owned by the ruling class
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how did marx describe religion?
as an 'opium of the people'
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why?
it dulls the pain of the oppression experience by the subject class
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what is the illusion put forward by religion?
that it appears to offer hope
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who created this illusion?
the ruling class
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what is the false class conciousness?
they accept these ideas and do not challenge the ruling class
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how does religion explain events?
they have occurred by supernatural powers
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what does this mean the subject class cannot do?
do anything to challenge their situation
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how does religion support the social order with monarchs?
by suggesting that they have the divine right to rule
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to challenge monarchs would be to challenge whom?
god
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what does religion promise is the subject class accept their suffering?
rewards in the afterlife
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what does this prevent?
the subject class being aware of their exploitation
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why would religion not be needed in a communist society?
because there would be no oppression or alienation or exploitation causing pain that needs to be dulled
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what is a weakness of this?
religion remained important in communist countries such as poland
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what does TRADITIONAL marxism ignore?
how religion can be used to challenge the ruling class
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how do functionalists criticise marxists?
for ignoring positive aspects of religion
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how is secularisation an argument against marxism?
it's hard to see how religion can create a false class consciousness if societies are becoming more secular
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what does gramsci argue the ruling class maintains over the subject class?
hegemony
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what can be developed by the intellectuals?
the views of the oppressed
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who developed this with the liberation theology?
maduro
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what is this?
the subject class turn to religion when other forms of protest have been suppressed. religious leaders then express these problems
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what is alienation?

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