Marxist

• Ideology


  belief system that distorts people's perception of reality in ways that serve the interests of the ruling class
• alienation


  becoming separated from or losing control of something that the individual has created or produced
• religion is the opium of the people


  religion dulls the pain of exploitation and masks problems and offers no real solutions
• use of the afterlife

  legitimate suffering if the poor as inevitable and god given and they will be favoured in the afterlife
• Compensation for suffering


  if you deal with poverty with dignity and humility you will be rewarded
• supernatural interventions


  hope of supernatural intervention to solve problems on earth
• justifying social order


  god created the social structure and it is a sin to challenge it