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''See also:'' [[Atheism and communism]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and communism]]
According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title="Investigating atheism: Marxism"|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014|}}</ref>
According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title="Investigating atheism: Marxism"|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014|}}</ref>
[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|[[Vladimir Lenin]]]]
[[Karl Marx]] said "[[Religion]] is the opium of the people".<ref>Marx, Karl. 1976. ''[http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right]''. Marx-Engels Collected Works, vol. 3. New York.</ref> Marx also stated: "[[Communism]] begins from the outset (Owen) with [[atheism]]; but atheism is at first far from being communism; indeed, that atheism is still mostly an abstraction."<ref>Marx, Karl. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm Private Property and Communism], 1844.</ref>
[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote regarding atheism and communism: "A Marxist must be a [[materialism|materialist]], i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the [[class struggle]] which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."<ref>Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm The Attitude of the Workers' Party to Religion], 1909.</ref>
[[Friedrich Engels]] wrote of atheistic evolutionism and communism: "Just as [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]] discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered law of development of human history."<ref>Engels, Friedrich. "Karl Marx's Funeral", ''Marx-Engels Collected Works'', vol. 24, p. 467.</ref>
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