Marx wanted dogs and gods remain taxfree??

via Jim Devine (pen-l; see next post down too).

The criticism of religion ends with the teaching that man is the highest essence for man - hence, with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence, relations which cannot be better described than by the cry of a Frenchman when it was planned to introduce a tax on dogs: Poor dogs! They want to treat you as human beings!

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm