Lenin On Religion
Vladimir Lenin was highly critical of religion, saying in his book Religion
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.
In About the attitude of the working party toward the religion, he wrote
Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.
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