Marx on Religion

by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

Book Overview

"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." How can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566399408
• ISBN13: 9781566399401
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"