Misteri Pembahasan Agama dalam MADILOG: Mengapa Tan Malaka Membahas Agama Padahal Dia Komunis?
Ferry Hidayat Senior Researcher Kolekif Wakaf Nalar (KWN) Mengapa Tan Malaka membahas agama-agama dalam buku MADILOG padahal ia seorang komunis, dan seorang komunis jelas-jelas akan membenci agama? Inilah misteri yang akan diungkap di sini. Yang harus dicermati pertama-tama ialah bahwa Tan Malaka jelas-jelas tidak mengambil langkah tegas perihal agama-agama sebagaimana Karl Marx. Karl Marx terang-terangan ateis. Dalam bukunya A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1844), Karl Marx menegaskan bahwa agama harus dikritik dan dihapuskan: For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sough...