>>526247I don't see how the quote you dropped proves religion
isn't part of the superstructure. Religion is pretty clearly a superstructural element . It arises from the economic base, which are the "relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production." I can only assume that you used all-caps for "LEGAL AND POLITICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE" as a sort of "proof by omission" i.e., because Marx didn't explicitly say that religion
was part of the superstructure, it must mean it isn't. But what else would it be? If everything is either part of the superstructure or the base, religion fits very clearly into the superstructure. Also Engels pretty clearly says religion is part of the superstructure in an 1890 letter to J. Bloch.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_09_21.htmThe economic situation is the basis, but
the various elements of the superstructure — political forms of the class struggle and its results, to wit: constitutions established by the victorious class after a successful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even the reflexes of all these actual struggles in the brains of the participants, political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views and their further development into systems of dogmas — also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form.
I'll set the bar fairly low: can you show any well-known Marxist explicitly stating religion is
not part of the superstructure?