Marxism as Political Religion

Marxism as Political Religion

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Marxism as Political Religion

Introduction

Marxism can be referred as the political and philosophy practice, and comes from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx demonstrated a concept of materialist in the history. Furthermore, they both provided a phenomenon of non-capitalist in the context of capitalism, as well as in different types of societies. They also transform the non-religious viewpoints regarding human liberation or freedom.

Marxism is a social and economic system developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels depending on the economic and political theories. Marxism can be defined as a reverse theory of capitalism that asserts it is an economic system, which refers to private ownership that focuses on production, distribution and exchange of goods and services, exemplify by free market competition. The driven force in Marxism is profit or revenue, and centers materialist interpretation of history as well as provides social change's dialectical.

In 1818 - 1883, Karl Marx provides a methodological approach towards the economics, history, and society, and demonstrates a concept of materialist in the history. It provides a demonstration of causes of changes, development and growth in the human society. Karl Marx also describes how people in the society mutually produce their needs and wants require in life. Furthermore, he covers the features of non-economic that present in a society, which includes political structures, social classes, and ideologies; and viewed as being a development of its economic activity.

The utopian of Lenin describe Marxism as a Political religion; because of it provide a design that brings revolution in Virtuosi community. This revolution can be typically referred as a political religion because it completely transformed the phenomenon of salvation in the world among the intellectual people. The criticism Karl Marx brought to the world was about the world without alienation and development, which the backward society of Russia faced, and he want to transform the backward society of Russia in the modernized and industrialized world of Western Europe (Klaus-Georg. 2005, pp. 97-126).

Marxism is considered to be a political religion because it brought a revolution in the classical political economics Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Marx also argued about inequality, economic and political status quo of people at that time, and postulated it as a matter of social function of religion. Karl Marx in addition provides differentiation between superstructure and substructure; and relates substructure to the system of economy and superstructure to the systems of politics and culture. This mismatch is considered to be the prime source of conflict and social interference. Furthermore, Marxism conversed to bring revolution in the urbanization, industrialization, technological progress, scientific, rationality, and growth and productivity enhancement, which are the main contributors in the progress, particularly in Russian Revolution. Another reason, why Marxism is referred as a political religion because, it argues about the transformation the establishment of capitalism to socialism and communism (Turner, 2005, pp. 17-18).

This paper explores the concept of revolutionary Marxism as a political ...