Religion, Happiness, Power

While according to Marx, Religion seeks Happiness, according to the other major 19th-century critic of it, Nietzsche, it seeks Power.  Thus, Heaven, for the former, consists in the satisfaction of all wants, while for the latter, a necessary, if not a sufficient condition of it, is the achievement of superiority over hitherto dominant forces, natural as well as political.  Implicitly, therefore, while for Marx, it is the alienation from the fruits of one's labor that is the breeding ground of Religion, for Nietzsche, it is the alienation from one's labor itself.  But then, insofar as Socialism achieves a maximum of Power, as Trotsky proposes, contrary to Nietzsche's concept of it as the actualization of the traditional Religious ideal, it is the antithesis of the latter.  For, that ideal is passively received from 'God', whereas the Marxist goal is a product of human self-determination.