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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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". But in russian "Opium for the people" is more close to common people's speach and more plain phonetically, so it became popular.
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.
A help desk is a department or person that provides assistance and information, usually for electronic or computer problems. [1] In the mid-1990s, research by Iain Middleton of Robert Gordon University [ 2 ] studied the value of an organization's help desks.