marxists Flashcards
1
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Marx
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Religion acts as the ‘opium of the masses’ in which it acts like a drug, cushioning the workers from true misory of being exploited in capitalist society
2
Q
Althusser
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Religion acts as an ideological state apparatus
- transmits dominant ideology and maintains false class consciousness
- relgious teaching encourage the proleteriat to believe that the way society is organised is gods will
- for example the hymn all things bright and beautiful contains the verse:
the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate
god made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
3
Q
Weber
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thoedicy of disprivaledge
- Protestant work ethic
4
Q
Engels
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religion acts as a dual character, could act as both conservative force and force for social change
