Untuk mendukung tujuan ideologi tersebut, ateisme Marxis–Leninis mencetuskan penjelasan untuk asal-usul agama dan menjelaskan metode untuk kritisisme ilmiah terhadap agama.[6] Akar filsafat ateisme Marxis–Leninis berada dalam karya-karya Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), Karl Marx (1818–1883) dan Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924).[7]
↑Institute of Scientific Atheism of the Academy of Social Sciences (1981). Questions of Scientific Atheism: “Marxist–Leninist atheism, with all its content is directed to the development of the abilities of the individual [person], religion deprives a person of his [and her] own “I”, doubles consciousness, creates conditions for him. . . . ”
↑Tesař, Jan (15 July 2019). The History of Scientific Atheism: A Comparative Study of Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union (1954–1991) (dalam bahasa Inggris). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. hlm.143. ISBN978-3-647-31086-2.
↑Kruglov, Anatoly Agapeevich. (Belarus, 1983). Fundamentals of Scientific Atheism: “The highest form is Marxist–Leninist atheism. * It relies on a materialistic understanding, not only of Nature (which was typical of pre–Marxist atheism) but also of society. . . .”
↑Институт научного атеизма (Академия общественных наук) (1981). "Вопросы научного атеизма" (dalam bahasa Russian). Изд-во "Мысл". марксистско-ленинский атеизм всем своим содержанием «аправлен на развитие способностей личности. Религия лишает человека его собственного «я», раздваивает сознание, создает для него условия ...Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
↑In Novaya Zhizn No. 28, 3 December 1905, Marxists Internet Archive, Lenin said that: “Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression, which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over-burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation . . . Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught, by religion, to be submissive and patient while here on Earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. . . . Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of Man.” Marxists Internet Archive
↑Thrower, James (1983). Marxist-Leninist "Scientific Atheism" and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN9789027930606. As an integral part of the Marxist–Leninist world-view, 'scientific atheism' is grounded in the view of the world and of Man enshrined in dialectical [materialism] and historical materialism: The study of scientific atheism brings to light an integral part of the Marxist–Leninist world-view. Being a philosophical science, scientific atheism emanates from the basic tenets of dialectical and historical materialism, both in explaining the origin of religion, and its scientific criticism of [religion]. (ibid., p. 272.)
↑Slovak Studies, Volume 21. The Slovak Institute in North America. p. 231. "The origin of Marxist–Leninist atheism, as understood in the USSR, is linked with the development of the German philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach."
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