The question is not what goal is envisaged for the time being by this or that member of the proletariat, or even by the proletariat as whole. The question is what is the proletariat and what course of action will it be forced historically to take in conformity withs its own nature.
The religion is part of the ideology of the group; the ritual is a non-discursive element of the ideology.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1844