“Man is the world of men, the state, society. This tate and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world because they are an inverted world. Religion is the generalized theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritualistic point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, its general ground of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence inasmuch as the human essence possesses no true reality. The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.” KM
