Question

According to Karl Marx, the capitalist class uses religious ideology as a tool of domination to mislead the workers about their true interests. In this regard, Marx referred to religion as the “__________ of the masses.”

Answer 1

The answer is Opium of the masses.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Religion is the opium of the people" is one of the most frequently paraphrased statements of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx.

Marx was not exactly against religion. For him, faith was something that "the people" conjured for themselves, a source of phoney happiness to which they turned to help numb the pain of reality. It was "the sigh of the oppressed creature". Organised religion with its churches, doctrines and priests followed on from that, a useful tool by which the ruling classes kept the masses supine.