Original sentence: What distinguished Marx from Feuerbach, however, was his view of Feuerbach's humanism excessively abstract, and so as no less ahistorical and idealist than what it purported to replace, namely the reified notion of God found in institutional Christianity that legimitized the repressive power of the Prussian state
Edited sentence: What distinguished Marx from Feuerbach, however, was his rejection of the latter's abstract humanism, which Marx perceived as no less ahistorical and idealist than what it purported to replace, namely the reified notion of God found in institutional Christianity that legimitized the repressive power of the Prussian state