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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 commissioner then ordered the surrender of all opium and the arrest of opium trader Lancelot Dent, [34] the head of Jardine Matheson rival Dent & Co., which triggered a series of events leading to Lin destroying more than 20,000 chests of opium – a large part of which belonged to Jardines. [35]
Kenyatta Lee Frazier Jr. (born April 11, 2000), known professionally as Ken Carson, is an American rapper and record producer from Atlanta, Georgia.Carson initially gained attention for his SoundCloud releases and collaborations with fellow Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti.
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Opium is an American record label and rap collective founded in 2019 by American rapper Playboi Carti. [1] The label, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia , currently holds three acts all of whom are natives to the city; rappers Ken Carson , Destroy Lonely , and the duo Homixide Gang.
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In Patient Zero (2003) and Narcotic Culture (2004), Dikötter argued that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself. Dikötter is the author of The People's Trilogy , which consists of Mao's Great Famine (2010), The Tragedy of Liberation (2013), and The Cultural ...