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The Shadow Gospel & Why Religion Went Obsolete – Book Review(s)

Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on July 19, 2025 by Guy Lancaster (more by Marx & Philosophy) | (Posted Jul 24, 2025)

Karl Marx’s description of religion as the ‘opiumof the people,’ in his 1844 A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, constitutes one of his most famously misinterpreted statements.