Question

Karl Marx believed that:________.

a. there is no use in ever expecting freedom or equality.
b. traditional religion inhibited human progress.
c. industrialization causes nothing but harm to people.
d. material possessions are more important than humane values.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Karl Marx believed that traditional religion inhibited human progress.

Step-by-step explanation:

Karl Marx considered religion as "the opium of the peoples", that is, as an instrument of the great spheres of power that, through the acceptance of suffering and poverty as requirements for "eternal life" or "salvation", promoted the oppression of workers at the cost of the opulence of employers and politicians.

For this reason, Marx considered that religions should be limited or even prohibited, in order to remove from the workers that feeling of acceptance and promote the class struggle for rights.

This position was called Marxist atheism, and in practice it meant the legal prohibition of religions in the Soviet Union, and even the persecution and imprisonment of thousands of religious faithful.