Abstract
How do Marx's definitions of religion as the “opium of the people” and as “sigh of the oppressed creature” relate to each other? How can we interpret that he leaves the young Hegelian topic of a “critique of religion” behind and transforms it into a critique of law, politics, and finally commodity “fetishism”? This essay relocates religion in the framework of a theory of ideology. Following Antonio Gramsei, Ernst Bloch, and Pierre Bourdieu, Marxism has to reformulate its critique of religion as an analytical task to decipher social antagonisms and struggles in the religious fields.
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