Furthermore, by doing away with oppressive class economic systems the state, along with class society and religion, would wither away with the old society as a new stateless and classless communist society rose in its place. Additionally, class society and the economic systems that created it was the origin of religion which was used by oppressive societies to maintain and justify the class oppression people experienced under class society. Marx described religion as an opiate that people used in order to cope with harsh conditions created under class societies including capitalism.