WHEN SOCIETY MEETS THE INDIVIDUAL, MARX CONTRA NIETZSCHE:
ANTIPODAL VIEWS ON SOCIETY, MORALITY, AND RELIGION
by Prof. Menelito P. Mansueto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche would certainly have a lot of things in
common. At first glance, one would think that both of them are looking at a similar
direction. They seemed to quarrel on the same side against morality and religion. Indeed,
both of them rejected morality and religion. They can both be considered as
“immoralists” in the same manner as they proclaim to be unbelievers. Both Marx and
Nietzsche had their own taste of a sordid attack against Christianity, and recognized it as
a religion of the suffering. And, thus both of them call to abolish religion.
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