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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Whatever.

Most people were true believers back then, being raised without religion wasn't a thing like it is now. Marx's ideas about the fall of capitalism are lifted straight from the Book of Revelations. The whole reason he valued the poor rather than the strong was because that's what Christianity does.