I took three main thoughts away with me from this book.
1) For Hegel the prime thing was the Idea, with a capital I, of the state. For Marx the prime thing was the material conditions from which the state arose.
2) Marx saw the class nature of the state. He believed that the working class could change society for good.
3) Religion is ' the heart of a heartless world' and for workers it was a means of escape from intolerable conditions. Here the famous phrase the opium of the people' comes in. The aim of Socialists is to create a society from which people do not wish to escape.
Incidentally, Hemingway said that cannabis was the opium of the people. It too is a means of escape.
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