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       Socialism and Religion
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: March 25, 2019, 7:16 pm
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       V. I.   Lenin
       Socialism and Religion
       1905
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       The economic oppression of the workers inevitably calls forth
       and engenders every kind of political oppression and social
       humiliation, the coarsening and darkening of the spiritual and
       moral life of the masses. The workers may secure a greater or
       lesser degree of political liberty to fight for their economic
       emancipation, but no amount of liberty will rid them of poverty,
       unemployment, and oppression until the power of capital is
       overthrown. Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression
       which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the
       people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by
       want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their
       struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to
       the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the
       savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods,
       devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want
       all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and
       patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of
       a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labour of others
       are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus
       offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire
       existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price
       tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the
       people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze,     in which the
       slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a
       life more or less worthy of man.
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       The revolutionary proletariat will succeed in making religion a
       really private affair, so far as the state is concerned. And in
       this political system, cleansed of medieval mildew, the
       proletariat will wage a broad and open struggle for the
       elimination of economic slavery, the true source of the
       religious humbugging of mankind.
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       SJG
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