Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.