From Europe to India

Abstract

IN Marx’s view Christian theology was philosophically unsupportable, and Christian institutional religion, in its alliance with the Prussian state, was morally disreputable. This view of it rested upon the judgement that the state itself was disreputable, in that it was a bureaucratic organisation for promoting the interests of an élite and for safeguarding these interests against erosion by the interests of the majority of the people. To regard the state as disreputable for such a reason entails, obviously, a value judgement in favour of the interests of the majority of the people over against those of the élite minority.