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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 ...
19th-century German philosopher Karl Marx, the founder and primary theorist of Marxism, viewed religion as "the soul of soulless conditions" or the "opium of the people". According to Marx, religion in this world of exploitation is an expression of distress and at the same time it is also a protest against the real distress.
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 ...
The group's name is an alteration of Karl Marx's famous aphorism, "Religion is the opium of the people". [3] Opiate for the Masses self-released a demo album entitled New Machines and the Wasted Life in 2000. In 2005, the band signed with Warcon Enterprises and issued the album The Spore. [4]
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.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "Opium" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Opium of the people;
The title of the book is an inversion of Karl Marx's famous dictum that religion is the opium of the people, and is a derivation from Simone Weil's quotation that "Marxism is undoubtedly a religion, in the lowest sense of the word. ... [I]t has been continually used ... as an opiate for the people." [1]
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