PHL235H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Marx: Social Relation
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State and society produce religion human essence has no true reality. Struggle against religion is struggle against the world- religion is the spiritual side of the world. Religious distress is simultaneously the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Criticism of religion disillusions man so that they will think like someone who has become disillusioned and come to reason: religion is illusory sun that revolves around man as long as man does not revolve around himself. Unmask self alienation: criticism of religion becomes criticism of right, criticism of theology---criticism of politics. Religious world, the reflex of the real world: religious self alienation: duplication of world into an imaginary one and a real one. Human essence: is not something inherent in ever individual, it"s the ensemble of social relation. Religious world is reflex of the real world. Society is based on the production of commodities: producers enter into relationships with each other by treating their products as values/commodities.
