When in Doubt, Blame Marx

Conservatives love to blame Marx, but they rarely understand him. 1. He actually approved of capitalism because with its destructive impulses it would always find a better way — temporary of course but still it would destroy what needed destroying in more traditional economic and social realms. 2. Marx did not oppose religion, it regarded it as a necessary drug to give some relief to those made miserable by existing social and economic realities. Eventually religion would be no longer needed when replaced by something better. Of course what Marx hoped would be better turned out to be worse, namely communism which might sound good in theory, like Christianity, but would prove disastrous in practice, again like Christianity.