Man is the world of man, the state, society.
This state, this society, produce religion, an inverted world-consciousness, because they are an inverted world. The demand to give up illusions about the existing state of affairs is the demand to give up the state of affairs which needs illusions. I don't want to conflate religion and philosophy and religion, but to point out that philosophy, too, is 'inverted'. What is important here is that the false reflection of an alienated, inhuman, world is itself alienated, but not only alienated. Just as only humans can be inhuman, philosophy, religion, the state, marriage, and all the other aspects of the 'superstructure' which communism has to transcend, contain a human side as well, and are not just to be thrown away, but 'sublated'.