Marx e a religião: pressupostos básicos para uma compreensão da religião na obra de Marx

Abstract

The paper proposes an analysis of the relationship between Marx and religion, seeking to escape certain reductionism, referring to the interpretation that simplifies and generalizes certain conception of religion from some assertions of Marx. For the author, it is necessary to understand this relationship in the context of the works in which Marx referred to religion, more specifically, which requires distinguishing the Marxian thought some different phases in the development of his thought and works. In this sense, the author took as references three works representative of this development, in which Marx referred to religion, comparing them on the basis of the dilemmas faced by the author throughout his life. The author's thesis is that the focus of Marx's critique of religion is based on much more, at first, the critique of idealist philosophy which presented itself as a religion; then a critique of human alienation, understood in terms of religious ideology; Finally, a review of the capital, which had taken the place of divinity, such as subsuming the man inside his logic.