Is Marxism scientific and is it justified in rejecting religion as reality?

Answer 1

Marxism has rejected the religion as opium for the people. It has rejected religion as the most unrealistic social institution that kills the revolutionary spirit in the human beings. Hence, he said in the context of Indians that in India revolution will never be successful for their faith in rebirth and Karma as per Indian religion or Hinduism. Marxism has to accept that faith in God is a reality which influences the human actions much more than the economic factors. Hence, Marx was wrong in rejecting religion altogether.

So far as whether it is scientific as a tool or even finding has been disproved by the Russian experimentation.

Answer 2

Marxists in every aisle have influenced secularization of the state and a bloated beaucratic government that would serve the needs of the proletariat. If the Iranian revolution were to occur without the presence of Ayatollah Khomeini or the mullahs, the country would probably be democratic today through a Marxist revolution. So, yes the two are always at odds from time to time and Marxism is indeed scientific--if not a political theory

Answer 3

It's been said that Marx is a scientist of history. He studied and observed historical data, from a German perspective influenced by Hegel and Feuerbach, and developed his theories.

To say that Marxism is scientific is wrong just as it's wrong to say that Marxism isn't scientific. He didn't develop his theories scientifically, as we know it, by forming a hypothesis and then working the scientific method. However, Marx's conflict theory has considerable use in social sciences (which do use the scientific method) as what's called a theoretical perspective, or the theoretical means a social scientist uses to examine theory.

Is it justified in rejecting religion as reality? Yes. Religion is ideological. It takes place in one's head, or heart or soul depending on how one interacts with one's religion. It's internal to the person. Rituals and external practices do happen, but that material interaction exists to reinfornce the ideological, not to blend the ideology with the material. Marx defines reality through a dialectic of idealist and materialist. Please note that materialism doesn't refer to the desire for bling (that's only a teeny tiny part of it).

Marx thought that religion was an abstract creation (ideal) that has become reified (become part of the human definition of reality) through time and tradition. Feuerbach said, and Marx agreed, that man makes religion; religion does not make man. Therefore, religion is not reality.

I probably screwed that explanation up, but honestly, it's difficult for me to explain one man's take on European history, philosophy, and social evolution in a few words.

Answer 4

Hi plato!

Well, it's a generalization if anything. Are you implying that the only religion in the world is christianity? And so you are rejecting christianity's view of reality as absolute reality? Because in that case, all views of reality should be rejected because nothing can describe absolute reality.

Answer 5

It is neither scientific nor realistic in discarding religion from the human institutions. Marxism has failed after 70 years of experimentation in Europe and Asia.

Answer 6

Marxism has no claim at being scientific precisely because it is a dogmatic ideology. Dogmatism has no place in science, because in science it is the most wondrous thing in the world to UNDERMINE everything that you know or all the ways you structured your understanding of the universe.

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Answer 7

Marxism is the opinion of one atheist man. He could only report what his limitations allowed him to see. I suppose to some an ant society is scientific. I suppose one could reject religion because of its intrusion into the fulfillment of one's insatiable appetite.

Answer 8

Marxism is a religion with no God.

Answer 9

Marxism is a social theory not a scientific theory.

Answer 10

Marxists are enemies of the open society.