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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 ...
Roland Boer asserts that Marx's depiction of religion as 'opium', while suspicious of religion's addictive potential, also emphasizes religion's medicinal properties akin to those of opium in Western medicine. [11]
Roland Theodore Boer (born 1961 [1]) is an Australian theologian and scholar of Marxism. [2] He was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2014. Career.
Roland Boer, the son of a Presbyterian minister, said: "There is a tradition within Marxism of engagement with religion that is usually characterised as atheistic and disinterested, but I argue there is a continuous stream of major Marxist figures who have written on questions of religion and engaged specifically with the Bible or with ...
Religion is the opium of the people—this dictum by Marx is the corner-stone of the whole Marxist outlook on religion. Marxism has always regarded all modern religions and churches, and each and every religious organisation, as instruments of bourgeois reaction that serve to defend exploitation and to befuddle the working class. [16]
Roland Boer: In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V: Brill 2015 Tamás Krausz [hu; ru] Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography: Monthly Review 'Deutscher, Lenin and the East-European Perspectives: On the History of the Theory of Socialism' [23] 2016 Andreas Malm: Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global ...
It was established by Roland Boer in 2004, [1] and was published by Monash University ePress until 2010. Since 2011 it has been published independently. [2] Julie Kelso was the editor-in-chief from 2008 to 2011, and then she co-edited with Boer from 2012 to 2015. From 2016 to 2020, Caroline Blyth and Robert J. Myles were editors-in-chief.
Roland participated in an outpatient program, went through detox many times, quit in the middle of two different long-term residential stints, and completed a stay at Recovery Works, in Georgetown, before her fatal overdose a week later, on April 16, 2013. For the treatment centers, the revolving door may be financially lucrative.