Karl Marx on Religion and a Nation’s History and Heritage

Karl Marx said these things about communism and religion, including Christianity —

• • • Communism begins where atheism begins.
    • My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
    • There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Marx said these things about history and heritage —

• • • Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
    • Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
    • If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

These quotes relate directly to Principles 1 and 9 on this list (also go here).

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