The Mask Slips (Obama and his Marxist Roots) »
Posted by: pc25 4 months, 1 week agoI haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn't take me long this weekend to find my copy of "The Marx-Engels Reader," edited by Robert C. Tucker
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pc254 months, 1 week ago
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"It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Karl Marx "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" February 1844
"Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
Or, more succinctly, and in the original German in which Marx somehow always sounds better: "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes."
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capecoralM4 months ago
What were the Marxist views of religion? Because the worker under the capitalist regimes was miserable and alienated, religious beliefs were sustained. Religion, according to Marx was the response to the pain of being alive, the response to earthly suffering. In Towards a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844), Marx wrote, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless circumstances."
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aniokly4 months, 1 week ago
Wow. That is too close for comfort. I see Obama more as a Marxist, then a socialist like Hillary even though both practice that "from each according to their ability to each according to their needs" mentlity, but I had no idea how close Obama's idea of religion is to Karl Marx. I am glad this is getting around now. By fall it will be plain who we have to elect.
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doppich4 months, 1 week ago
Not a surprising allegation from one of the NYT's new crop of wingnuts. When you're as far right as William Kristol, almost everyone else looks Marxist.
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