What does Karl Marx discuss on Religion in The German Ideology?
"Religion is the opiate of the masses" – that is his famous quote from this piece Marx, unlike later followers, was not virulently atheistic – he simply felt that organized religion made people content with the status quo – they gave a false explanation of reality, and so they masked the true condition of mankind in class-based society. Since people were lulled into sleep waiting for heaven, they would not act in a revolutionary manner to change society now on this earth, in this lifetime.
