Full Idea
Morality, law and religion are bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
Gist of Idea
Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion
Source
K Marx / F Engels (The Communist Manifesto [1848], p.230), quoted by Peter Singer - Marx 9
Book Reference
Singer,Peter: 'Marx' [OUP 1996], p.62
A Reaction
The obvious question is whether this creation of values is conscious or unconscious. Personally I believe in conspiracies. Some cynical conversations go on behind the scenes, of which historians will never hear.