Is Karl Marx advocating a religious society indirectly?
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"True classlessness is born from abundance and inner understanding, not from the coercion of imposed revolutions."
According to Osho, Karl Marx neither directly nor indirectly advocates a religious society. Marx’s route—state power, dictatorship of the proletariat, then a supposed withering away—is psychologically naive and historically false; power doesn’t relinquish itself. Such coercion breeds a stronger state, not spirituality. True classlessness, Osho says, arises naturally with growing abundance and inward understanding, not by imposed revolutions.
No—Marx’s plan uses force and big government, which makes rulers cling to power instead of making people spiritual.
Why this matters practically
- Reminds you that spirituality can’t be engineered through coercion or political control.
- Warns against concentrating power, since power tends to corrupt rather than liberate.
- Encourages inner growth and organic social change over forced revolutions.
- Warns against concentrating power, since power tends to corrupt rather than liberate.
- Encourages inner growth and organic social change over forced revolutions.
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