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An analysis of the Marxist perspective on religion
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An analysis of the Marxist perspective on religion For most people the name Karl Marx has some significance or importance. Many people see him as a political motivator or revolutionary some as a great philosopher almost all would agree he was anti-religion. Marx, Karl Heinrich (1818-1883) was born in Trier, his family was Jewish, but later converted to Protestantism in 1824 in order to avoid anti-Semitic laws and persecution. For this reason among others, Marx rejected religion early on in his youth and made it absolutely clear that he was an atheist. Marx studied philosophy at Bonn and then later Berlin, where he came under the sway of George Wilhelm Friedrich von Hegel. Hegel's philosophy had a crucial influence upon Marx' own thinking and later theories. Hegel was a complicated philosopher, but it is possible to draw a rough outline for our purposes. Hegel was what is known as an ''idealist''...
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