this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
41 points (100.0% liked)

chapotraphouse

13521 readers
959 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net
MiraculousMM@hexbear.net
KenBonesWildRide@hexbear.net
Nakoichi@hexbear.net
itsPina@hexbear.net
corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net
PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
InsidiousTrackers@hexbear.net
sweet_pecan@hexbear.net
a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net
41
Hi hello I have a question regarding Marx’s “opium of the masses” quote (hexbear.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by worldonaturtle@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

People on the internet are saying it’s not a condemnation of religion and to Marx opium means medicine, Im confused help me bear website!

Edit: what did Karl Marx think opium was?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

This was written a year after the first opium war, and twenty years after confessions of an english opium eater. Opium has (and had) long been in the zeitgeist as seductive, panacea, dream-like, destructive.

I don't read it as supportive of either