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Fryderyk Engels, Karol Marks - religia jako opium ludu
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx - religion as opium of the people

Author(s): Jerzy Kochan
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Marxism; religion; Feuerbach; Marx; Engels; religion as opium of the people; alienation; socialism; liberation theology; Ładosz; revolution

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the paper is connected with attempt of reconstruction of Engels and Marx's theory of religion, among others the meaning of the formula "religion is the opium of the people". The second part of the article is devoted to the confrontation classical Marxism also the creators of their theoretical adaptation in conditions of real socialism by the Polish Marxist Jaroslaw Ładosz and the phenomenon of liberation theology.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 41-60
  • Page Count: 20