Click here to read “MY TAKE — Was Marx right about religion?” by Henry Idema from The Holland Sentinel on September 17, 2012.
As with Sigmund Freud, most Americans have an opinion about Karl Marx without having read Karl Marx. His economics leave a lot to be desired, especially by underestimating his own Jewish doctrine of sin and the human selfishness and will to power that the story of Adam and Eve illuminates. Worldly goods will never be distributed based on “each according to his or her ability and need.”
On religion, however, Marx had some profound ideas that illuminate the use of religion in our political campaigns.