A Study On Marx’s Early Religious Criticism And Its Value

The proposition that the criticism of religion is the premise of all other criticisms indicates the status and role of religious criticism in Marxist philosophy.Marx’s criticism of religion is mostly concentrated in his relatively early works,through the analysis of the historical process of religious criticism,we can clearly see that Marx’s criticism of religion is a process of constant negation and dialectical sublation.In this process,from the criticism of natural philosophy in ancient Greece,through the rational religious criticism of German classical philosophy,to the later religious criticism of young Hegelians,all greatly influenced the final formation of Marx’s religious criticism thought,but Marx did not simply depend on a certain theoretical system.Marx affirmed Feuerbach’s highest theoretical achievement in the religious criticism movement as the core member of the young Hegelians,and pointed out that Feuerbach’s religious criticism was not the completion of the task of religious criticism,but the stage,Marx believed that religious critici sm should have the next link,and that it was not the completion of the task.That is,to criticize the real world that produces religion.Based on the exploration of the essence of religious criticism,Marx’s theoretical standpoint has experienced from deism to idealism and atheism.In his doctoral dissertation,Marx was deeply influenced by the philosophy of self-consciousness of Powell,the representative of the young Hegelians,and put forward the idea of opposing all gods,gradually abandoning the previous world outlook of deism;From idealist atheism to materialist atheism,beginning with the Rheinische Zeitung and ending with the Yearbook of Germany and France,Marx began to get involved in practical problems,and the theoretical tendency was that Feuerbach’s humanistic materialism replaced the previous idealism of Hegel and the Young Hegel School,from which Marx asserted that religious criticism had ended in Germany and brought the object of criticism back to the world from heaven.Put forward the general plan of religious liberation,political liberation and human liberation,so that history can enter the next link;And the initial formation of Marxist religious outlook,Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in the religious alienation and alienation of labor was deeply recognized,Marx determined the basic principle of religious criticism and political economy as a whole,Outline and Form,Marx for the first time from the perspective of scientific history explained the religion.The Marxist religious outlook based on historical materialism was initially established.From the perspective of religious criticism,exploring the practical connection between religious criticism and revolutionary change and historical materialism is an important starting point to comprehensively understand Marxist philosophy and Marxist historical materialism.At the same time,it has important theoretical value and practical significance for guiding the construction of harmonious religion in China.