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The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) 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 ...
Opiate for the Masses was founded in 1999 by singer Ron Underwood, drummer Elias Mallin, guitarist/keyboardist Jim Kaufman, and guitarist Dustin Lyon. [2] The group's name is an alteration of Karl Marx's famous aphorism, "Religion is the opium of the people". [3]
The video was well received by fans and entered number one on the Billboard Top Music Videos chart, where it remained in the charts for 54 weeks. [13] [14] In the Billboard Top VHS Sales chart, the video peaked at number four, and remained in for 45 weeks. [15] The video was certified gold by RIAA on December 21, 1999, and platinum on February ...
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. O. People of the First Opium War (1 C, 12 P) ... Category: People of the Opium Wars.
Du Yuesheng (22 August 1888 – 16 August 1951), nicknamed "Big-Eared Du", [1] was a Chinese mob boss who spent much of his life in Shanghai.He made his fortune in the opium trade before transforming into a financial tycoon.
Opium of the people; Opium replacement; P. Papaver somniferum; Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of ...
Live Floating Anarchy 1977 is a 1978 live album by Planet Gong, a combination of Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth and the band Here & Now.It was recorded in Toulouse on 6 November 1977, apart from the track "Opium for the People" which was a studio recording.
"Opium for the people" – is wide-known in Russian variant of Marx's "opium of the people". Author of this variant was not Lenin, but prominent soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene (Evgeny) Petrov (novel «12 chairs»). Lenin in his article «Socialism and Religion» repeated Marx's "opium of the people".