Opium of the people
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title:
Opium of the people
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The opium of the people or opium of the masses is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion's role is as a metaphysical balm for the real suffering in the universe and in society. This statement was translated from the German original, "Die Religion [...] ist das Opium des
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Quote by Karl Marx
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
date created:
2003-08-19T23:13:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:45:44Z
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