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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.
If your Facebook account gets hacked, you’ll probably figure it out (or get a heads-up from a friend) pretty quickly. That’s because the signs are fairly obvious—clearer than the signs you ...
It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
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]
He became a symbol of the fight against opium and other drug trades, with his image displayed in parades, and his writings quoted approvingly by anti-opium and anti-drugs reformers. [ 18 ] Despite the antagonism between the Chinese and the British at the time, the English sinologist Herbert Giles praised and admired Lin: "He was a fine scholar ...
Opium is an American record label and rap collective that was founded in 2019 by Playboi Carti. [125] The label, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia , currently holds four acts all of whom are natives to the city; rappers Ken Carson and Destroy Lonely , and the duo Homixide Gang.
"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".