A contemporary Marxist perspective on capitalism and human dignity. 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.' Those were the words of Karl Marx in the introduction to an unpublished critique of Hegel. Speaking of spiritual oppression, Marx declared that religion serves as 'the illusory happiness', making humans unmindful of injustice. Paradoxically, Marxist ideology appears to…
