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Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

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. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world. It is the immediate task of philosophy, which is in the service of history, to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked. Thus, the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.

Nazis Made Crysis posted:

so based on thread title this is just a personal beef with tarot bullshit, but based on quotations all other spiritualism/religion should gently caress off?

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

that includes your woke new age withcraft poo poo and astrology

CODChimera posted:

someone please explain what's going on because i can't follow this subplot at all

Sing Along posted:

whats that is it the leftist purging doomspiral i hear? alone i will sit, the one true comrade, having from my own feces and body hair constructed a fortress of unsullied ideology through which only those who have thoroughly internalized self critique may pass in order to join me in utopia

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

there are a lot dumber and more obscure purity tests than one of the fundamental tenets of marxism, the recognition that superstition, spirtuality, religion is a distraction from & balm for the actual material condition, and that the first step toward building a better world is recognizing reality as it actually exists.

Sing Along posted:

have you ever considered that maybe the reason marxism failed was because nobody thought to appease the gods?

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

there are a lot dumber and more obscure purity tests than one of the fundamental tenets of marxism, the recognition that superstition, spirtuality, religion is a distraction from & balm for the actual material condition, and that the first step toward building a better world is recognizing reality as it actually exists.

Xaris posted:

Sing Along posted:

have you ever considered that maybe the reason marxism failed was because nobody thought to appease the gods?

staticman posted:

https://twitter.com/IronProle/status/1345096053561778176

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

drugs and religion are indeed palliatives, yes. not sure what that has to do with the failures of socialism though, considering we live in a universally capitalist world atm.

Xaris posted:

what's the dialectics of impoverished skull kid hexxing the moon to become downwardly mobile and the bourgeoise link trying to unhexx the moon?

Victory Position posted:

astrology makes goons so incredibly mad that they should be allowed to proffer

Homeless Friend posted:

what if the witch is hot as gently caress op

Homeless Friend posted:

what if the witch is hot as gently caress op

Sing Along posted:

last i checked that didnt turn out super hot either. sensing a pattern here

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

considering we live in a universally capitalist world atm.

Yossarian-22 posted:

that was the objectivist metaphor, the communist metaphor was bioshock 2