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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay

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Marx's Critique of Religion

Karl Marx wrote the economic and philosophic manuscripts in late 1844 where he laid out these theological ideas. We're going to spend most of our time in that but before that he wrote a critique of Hegel's philosophy of the right. This is where probably the most famous quote you've ever heard of from Marx resides, "religion is the opium of the people" He says we live in a world full of suffering and we give ourselves religion to try to cover up the pain.

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