...Thus for Marx (1964:135), "The religious world is but the reflex of the real world", and (1964:42) "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the...of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." For Durkheim (1954:418), the "reality, which...

...aroma. The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the...

...suffering is the expression of real suffering and at the same time the protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion...

...Deutsch-franzdsische Jahrbiicher which he and his little group at Paris were able to publish. The context ran: 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of a soulless environment. It is the opium of the people* - not, as Lenin amended it, opium...

...religion but refers rather to a function carried out, presumably, by all religions. What Marx said is, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people."183 This functional description...

...is therefore mediately the fight against the other world, of which religion is the spiritual aroma. Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of...

...1841) The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the...

...over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people. ' Karl Marx, letter to his father (1837) 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ' Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's...

...relationship with the "earthly oligarchy." Marx advocated the abolition of religion because it was "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions ... the opium of the people." Michnik chose to favorably...

...action for and by the wretched. As Ernst Bloch, the Jewish philosopher and religious scholar, put it, " Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and also the protest against such distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart...